The perfect novel to drop into her hands? Nightbitch, about a woman in the postpartum hellzone (her husband is eternally at work) turning into a murderous she-beast at night, and bringing the entire neighborhood MLM along with her. This is the perfect beach-read tableau: a man asking, “Whaddaya reading, babe?” and a woman elbows-deep in a story she’d rather her partner not know about. What you’re actually going to get with this one is some midnight scrambling along the cliffs chasing ghosts, a horny attempt at hooking up with the soldiers at the nearby naval base, and a bunch of dead rabbits as Anja connects with a mythologized big cat. It is certainly set on a beach! If anyone asks you about Adriane Howell’s debut, you can tell them it’s about a grieving antiquarian who is cast out of her auction house and takes up in a beachside cottage. If people ask you what it’s about, say “it’s, uh, about the spirit of second-wave feminism.” To that end, let me present to you the greatest moments of beach-read dissonance, or, books I recommend for your holiday that are lady on the streets, explicitly subversive freakshow between the sheets.ĭon’t forget to re-apply sun lotion to your vulnerable human skin as you take in this story of a woman who falls in love with (and gets physical with) a bear. Of course, Dean pointed out, people read whatever the hell they want on vacation (if you’re my husband, every trip involves lugging along The Power Broker, never to finish), which means that around every crystalline pool, people are reclined in color-coordinated separates while reading all kinds of unhinged and explicit stuff. It should be enjoyable and easy, with brisk pace and simple diction.” Above all, wrote Dean, “the essence of the beach read, most could agree, was more of a mood than anything else: attached to vacation, the book shouldn’t have any really weighty themes or social significance. Michelle Dean traces the term “ beach read” to the summer of 1990 a patronizing but increasingly potent marketing tool that has influenced covers and publisher calendars to the point that we all take for granted the idea of the cheerful pastel cover and sense that we are all in some SPF-scented vacation book club. Get yer sizzling beach reads! yells the internet ( us included, needless to say our list is the best one). In case you weren't aware, Jamie Lee has written multiple best selling children's books! Not sure what she made for them, but it's definitely not nothing.As the sun climbs, people are folding their linens into packing cubes and squaring a nice good beach read on top-something to sink into in the glare of the Caribbean sun, or squint at through oversized sunglasses. We do know, however, that she made $70,000 for Trading Places thanks to this oral history of the film from Insider. But information about her paychecks are few and far between. WATCH 'HALLOWEEN' HERE So, What About Her Other Movie/TV Earnings?Īgain, Jamie Lee has had an extremely successful career and made a ton of movies and TV shows (remember Scream Queens?!). As if somehow we as women have to be just grateful for the opportunity. We as a society go, ‘Good on ya!’ But then if a woman says, ‘Well, I would like that same piece of the pie,’ I think people would think you’re being greedy, or you’re not being grateful. Jamie Lee also made it clear that she now self-advocates for a piece of that pie: “The industry has no problem when a man makes millions of dollars on something that’s a franchise. There was no back end.… There was no large amount of money made.” She added, “Obviously someone was making a lot of money-it was not me and it was only in the latter years-the H2O, the 2018 Halloween, which, by the way, we made for scale.” It’s hard to ever say, ‘I didn’t make a lot of money.’ Tell that to a teacher or nurse. Look, we’re actors, so we already make more money based on the little work we do. Jamie Lee spoke about her Halloween salary to Variety, saying, “The truth of the matter is, I didn’t really make much money off of the horror movies. ^ A moment for this amazing Instagram post/caption.
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