Weekly Roundup #73: Pride and reading challenges

Happy Monday, everyone!! Hope your last week was wonderful and this coming week will be fantastic. Personally, I’ll be taking yet another week off from these roundups as I’ll be in Delaware for FIREFLY (🙌🏼) for a good chunk of the week. I miiight come back next week, we’ll see. In the meantime, celebrate Pride, get out in this beautiful summer sun and do something you’ve never done before!

XO, Katie

Reading

Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. I’m SO pumped it’s finally here!!

Pride Events: Here’s How to Celebrate, The New York Times. There’s 25 different events, leggo!

Your Big Rainbow Guide to Celebrating Pride in NYC, PureWow. If anyone in the area is interested! 🏳️‍🌈

From Midnight Raids to Same-Sex Marriage: What’s Changed in the 50 Years Since Stonewall, Refinery29. These are important events in our history and ones I think everyone should know. Hopefully, one day, we’ll look back at this time as a catalyst for equal rights for ALL.

Glow Recipe Is Clearing Out Its Inventory With a Huge Sale on K-Beauty Products, Allure. 🚨ALERT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! 🚨 There is a massive K-beauty sale happening right now! Run, don’t walk!!

The 2019 Cosmo Makeup Awards—Aka All the Sh*t You Need to Buy RN, Cosmopolitan.

The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work, The New Yorker. I used to love the “Amelia Bedelia” books, now I love them even more.

The Adults Who Treat Reading Like Homework, The Atlantic. I used to kill those reading challenges at the public library or in school, they were my jam. Now, I have “challenged” myself to read 62 books (I think that’s this year’s goal?) and I don’t consider it work at all. I read at least one book a week for fun, more if I’m traveling or on vacation, so around 60 books seems totally plausible, unless I decide to take on “War and Peace.”

Are You Emotionally Stable Enough to Get Bangs? A Questionnaire, The New Yorker. Right off the bat, #1. Yes.

How to Be Happy? A Nearly 90-Year-Old Has Some Advice, Glamour. Be grateful. Help others. Laugh. It’s not so hard 😉

You Won't Score A 20/20 On This Quiz Unless You've Seen Every Pixar Movie, BuzzFeed. Give in to the nostalgia, people! Take the quiz!

GNI Picks: 10 Books We're Reading in June, Girls’ Night In. Really want to read “The Great Believers,” “Daisy Jones & The Six” and “The Cuckoo’s Calling” sounds cheesier than my normal interests…but I’ll read anything by J.K. Rowling. Plus, hey, look at that! Already reading “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered.”

Canada will ban 'harmful' single-use plastics as early as 2021, The Guardian. Why. Why can’t we have a Justin Trudeau??

A valedictorian thanked teachers in her speech. Then she went scorched earth. The Washington Pose. What 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 legend! I would never have had the balls at that age, I truly applaud her.

What Is Bakuchiol? Experts Explain the Benefits of the Natural Alternative to Retinol, Allure. My skin can handle a lot, but, for those of you with sensitive skin, maybe take a look! I’ve heard great things about Biossance’s Squalane + Phyto-Retinol Serum. In fact, it’s on my list to test!

Sophie Turner's Epic Bachelorette Party Extravaganza Spanned 3 Countries and Yes, There Was McDonald's, Time. What? I love her and was curious! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Aly & AJ Don't Mind Being The Underdogs, Nylon. I used to really like some of their songs back in the day and I love Aly in iZombie so I definitely feel like I should give their new work a listen. Anyone else?

6 Reasons Why You Should Consider Calling Off Your Wedding — Seriously, Refinery29. I may work in the wedding industry, but I not-so-secretly love reading this kind of thing. 😏

Everything We Know About 'Frozen 2,' Billboard. I don’t need to know anything…I’m READY!

Which Woman Running For President Is Your Candidate? We'll Tell You, Right Here. Refinery29. I was skeptical about this so read it more to see if they offered any insight at all.

Which Movie Chef Makes the Best Food? Grub Street. I clearly need to watch more movies…I think I’d seen two on this list.

Forking Heck! The Good Place Is Going To The Bad Place, Refinery29. Nooooooo 😭

A Mini History of the Tiny Purse, JSTOR Daily. Personally, I’ll take a hands-free fanny pack over anything else.

Which Jonas Brother Are You Most Like? BuzzFeed. I don’t know, guys. Sometimes you just have to take a JoBro quiz.

We Couldn’t Tell the Difference Between $40 and $400 Handbags. Can You? PureWow. No, and that’s why I will never spend money on a purse. Or sunglasses.

Listening

Firefly 2019. ONE MORE WEEK!

Watching

DOBBY. I…I…I can’t stop watching. I don’t know how to…I don’t know what else it could be!! This blew my mind.

The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu. It’s season threeeeeee!!

Loving

ACL Lineup by day. Loooving Sunday, here for Saturday and also very into the fact that I don’t care about many people on Friday so it’ll be a very chill, arrive when we want kind of day 🙌🏼