Introducing Play Into It’s newest curated feature, Between the Sheets.
Although it’s not necessarily a book club.
Sadly, our busy lives keep us from reading as much as we’d like. However, we want to write about the books we are currently reading or have read for the year so think of it more as our book picks.
Our first pick is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It came highly recommended by one of my best friends and favorite people in the world, Krystal.
I immediately devoured every word and couldn’t put it down during my summer vacation.
Best of all it’s set during the mid-’60s to late ’70s, which I’m fascinated by. It’s a riveting fictional novel based around the roller coaster ride of a fictional rock.
Think of it as Almost Famous but no William Miller and Penny Lane’s the musical leading lady of our dreams.
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse.
I am not a muse.
I am THE somebody.
End of fucking story.”
Our next pick is one I’m currently reading and can’t get enough of. As if Jenny Slate hasn’t mesmerized me enough, now I’m hypnotized by her words in her first fictional novel Weirds.
Specifically, the book is filled with such candor and self-awareness that comes from learning from one’s mistakes as we get older. Understandably it feels as though Slate’s reading your mind.
“I am tired of sinking down to a lower place to be with men. I am tired of throwing a tarp over some of my personality so that the shape of my identity suits some gross man a little better for whatever shitty things he needs to do in order to keep his boring identity erect and supreme.”
Lastly, is She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey. A powerful and must-read that sparked the #MeToo movement which was created by Tarana Burke.
Importantly, when the New York Times and The New Yorker published back-to-back investigations into sexual assault claims against Harvey Weinstein in October 2017.
Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey recount their entire reporting process, from how they met sources to the various ways Weinstein tried to stop them from publishing. It’s a compelling and incredibly important book.
“Jodi cut to the point: The United States had a system for muting sexual harassment claims, which often enabled the harassers instead of stopping them. Women routinely signed away the right to talk about their own experiences. Harassers often continued onward, finding fresh ground on which to commit the same offenses. The settlements and confidentiality agreements were almost never examined in law school classrooms or open court.
This was why the public had never really understood that this was happening. Even those in the room with long histories of covering gender issues had never fully registered what was going on.”
