Self Care
Ratings6
Average rating3.2
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Ratings6
Average rating3.2
"Highbrow, brilliant." --The Approval Matrix, New York magazine One of Cosmopolitan's 12 Books You'll Be Dying to Read This Summer A Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2020 A Vulture Best Book of Summer 2020 One of Refinery29's 25 Books You'll Want to Read This Summer An Esquire Must-Read Book of Summer 2020 A Book Riot Best Book of 2020 *so far The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to stay BFFs. Maren Gelb is on a company-imposed digital detox. She tweeted something terrible about the President's daughter, and as the COO of Richual, “the most inclusive online community platform for women to cultivate the practice of self-care and change the world by changing ourselves,” it's a PR nightmare. Not only is CEO Devin Avery counting on Maren to be fully present for their next round of funding, but indispensable employee Khadijah Walker has been keeping a secret that will reveal just how feminist Richual’s values actually are, and former Bachelorette contestant and Richual board member Evan Wiley is about to be embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal that could destroy the company forever. Have you ever scrolled through Instagram and seen countless influencers who seem like experts at caring for themselves—from their yoga crop tops to their well-lit clean meals to their serumed skin and erudite-but-color-coded reading stack? Self Care delves into the lives and psyches of people working in the wellness industry and exposes the world behind the filter.
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This might be an example of buying a book mostly because of the cover and thinking the content was intriguing but not captivating.
I could tell this was a satire of a female founded and run social media app that was meant to provide self care engagement but instead was selling women very expensive product.
The two main characters are intensely unlikable and not all that interesting. The character who is the most intriguing maybe gets 2-3 chapters and is pushed aside for the sake of the two white women main characters.
I don't know if the author was trying to show something by doing that but it was evident and unsettling.
The last 1/3 redeemed some for me. There's the larger question of women believing women and victim hood and using victim hood to sell product or subscriptions. The ending kind of comes out of nowhere though I did enjoy the last chapter.
Kind of disappointed in this book honestly. Premise was promising but execution wasn't all there.
