Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz

5 reviews

literaryinluv's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Cursing, Alcohol, and Classism

kshertz's review

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

This is for a very very very specific audience. I ALMOST was there. It’s for a 30 something white middle class lesbian who grew up rich. If that doesn’t sound like something you can relate to, this book will probably annoy you. But I AM a 30 something white middle class PANsexual that grew up rich. So close.

For me, this was so much fun because I got to relive my entire childhood with all the pop culture references and reliving AOL, the Internet, etc. I really related to a lot and I liked the references because mine were the same. So why not 5 stars? There’s some man bashing that makes it not inclusive and I also feel like this is a memoir that should come out when this person was much much older and it would be more reflective and awesome. Plus, therapy girl. We all need it. Go to it. But I definitely felt it was light and I enjoyed it and I recommend for reminiscing if you grew up like me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Outing

mallory10100's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

god i LOVED this!! one of the most relatable books i’ve ever read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Biphobia, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Dementia, and Classism

i highly recommend this!!

prideandparchment's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

Girls Can Kiss Now is a funny and very relatable essay collection. It's important, fills a huge gap in literature. 
But there are some pretty overdramatic parts near the end I got annoyed by (how can someone freak out by Taylor Swift THAT MUCH?)... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

caseythereader's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

Thanks to Atria Books for the free advance copy of this book.

 - GIRLS CAN KISS NOW is a hyperfocused deep dive into growing up and coming out in the 2000s. Gutowitz breaks down the journey lesbian culture and visibility took in those years, from hidden secret to loud and proud.
- I'm a few years older than the author, but so much of her experience of growing up as a suburban white girl receiving conflicting information about what being gay meant (and therefore being unable to discern whether you were gay) resonated deeply with me.
- A lot of really rough stuff is covered here, from generalized lesbophobia to forced outing, but this essay collection is actual laugh out loud hilarious. I kept reading passages aloud to my spouse, trying not to snort laugh at descriptions of furtively using the family computer or falling into lesbian TikTok. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Minor: Transphobia, Vomit, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol