3 Relatable New Books About Messes and Misfits Who Made It
Ilana Lucas
Ilana Lucas
Ilana is an English professor, theatre consultant and playwright based in Toronto, Canada. When she’s not at the theatre or insisting that literary criticism can be fun, she’s singing a cappella or Mozart, occasionally harmonizing with the symphony, or playing “Under Pressure” with her rock handbell group, Pavlov’s Dogs.
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Let’s be real. Behind our Instagram-ready selfies, our polished Facebook profiles, and our masterful Pinterest epigrams, most of us are a bit of a mess. Almost everyone is or at least feels like a misfit at times. We have all sorts of neuroses that we’re really planning to work on at some point once we buy the perfect journaling materials, and we’re still waiting for that moment where we feel like real adults. (It’s coming, right?) That’s why it’s so great to read the new releases in this week’s book club, all about our fellow messes who made it, but in a real and human way. They never really stopped the messiness of life; they just either embraced it, made it better, or both.
<em>30 Before 30: How I Made a Mess of My 20s, and You Can Too</em>
<em>Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went From Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things</em>
<em>My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir Through Unpopular Culture</em>
Ilana Lucas
Ilana is an English professor, theatre consultant and playwright based in Toronto, Canada. When she’s not at the theatre or insisting that literary criticism can be fun, she’s singing a cappella or Mozart, occasionally harmonizing with the symphony, or playing “Under Pressure” with her rock handbell group, Pavlov’s Dogs.
Ilana Lucas
Ilana Lucas
Ilana is an English professor, theatre consultant and playwright based in Toronto, Canada. When she’s not at the theatre or insisting that literary criticism can be fun, she’s singing a cappella or Mozart, occasionally harmonizing with the symphony, or playing “Under Pressure” with her rock handbell group, Pavlov’s Dogs.