current obsessions.

• the help by kathryn sockett
  i just finished the book last night (at 3am, because i couldn't put it down) and now i'm soso excited for the movie later this summer. i'm not sold on emma stone, but viola davis? forever and always. if you're looking for a healthy serving of socially-conscious, dramatic chick-lit, please read this. it's fascinating, and so well done.
  
  
  
• guilty pleasure tv
  (read: the bachelorette, the real housewives of nj/ny/oc/atl/etc.)
  the above are best viewed with a weekly collection of girls (and boys) crowded in someone's living room, stocked with wine, candy and ice cream. judgments abound, alliances are formed, and can we all just agree that jp is the best and ashley needs to get over herself? thanks. one of the best ways to make me feel like i'm not alone in my ironic (but slightly non) adoration of the aforementioned blights on american pop culture, is to read the hilarious, pointed, and scathing recaps of these episodes on different sites. here are some of the best regarding this week's episode of RHONJ.
  vulture
  gawker
  hellogiggles
  
  
  
• quirky, compilation websites
  the burning house
  photographs & lists of contributor's most-prized possessions (read: what they would save from a burning house)
  dear photograph
  a mix of the past & present, people hold up old photos in the same location in which they were taken and comment about how times have changed. some are funny, some are adorable, and some delve into that post-secret kind of nostalgic despair that makes me uncomfortable