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Monday, January 15, 2024

Blog Tour- ISN'T SHE GREAT by @elizabethteets With A Guest Post & A #Giveaway! @ReadFuriously

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the ISN'T SHE GREAT by Elizabeth Teets Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: ISN'T SHE GREAT: Writers on Women Led Comedies from 9 to 5 to Booksmart

Author: Elizabeth Teets (Edited By)

Pub. Date: January 16, 2024

Publisher: Read Furiously

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 142

Find it: GoodreadsAmazon, B&N, Indigo, BAM, Bookshop, Powell's, Blackwells 

A love letter to women-led comedies. 

Based on Elizabeth Teets’s program series called “Isn’t She Great” at the Hollywood  Theater, this anthology is a collection of the most beloved female-centric comedies and the  audiences who adore them. From 9 to 5 to Romy and Michele to the iconic Elle Woods, the  essays in this collection build on our devotion to these films and continue the conversation  around funny women and how these characters have shaped so many talented writers. 

As Elizabeth Teets reminds us, there is a specific power in a funny woman. A woman who  dares to laugh at the world and at herself. These movies made us strong and smart and  sexy (and bend and snap a lot). At the end of the day, we remind ourselves when the world  only tries to let us have a little - a little money, a little confidence, a little joy - to go out and  get the whole enchilada. 

Isn’t She Great is for anyone who loves movies and feels the glamour in pink. Cult cinema  and film criticism will never be the same. 

 

 

Top 5 favorite movies

Every essay featured in Isn’t She Great: Writers on Women-Led Comedies from 9 to 5 to Booksmart reminds us of the power of funny women and how their stories shaped so many talented writers. This list is just a few of the fantastic films and what makes them deserve so many rewatches.

 

9 to 5

“It is a movie they rarely let women make...For once women are allowed to go on a journey and this time we can also bring our friends. The movie addresses sexual harassment, the unpaid extra roles women play in the workforce, and the glass ceiling in ways even movies made today shy away from.”

-Elizabeth Teets (editor), “The Whole Enchilada”

 

Jawbreaker

“During a time when most female protagonists were relaying messages of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and anxiety, Courtney Shayne was out here organizing murder cover-ups and playing kinky sex games with her boyfriend without breaking a sweat or worrying over other people’s opinions of her. This is a woman who knows exactly how to play every situation, obviously until the end where everything unravels.”

-Samantha Mann, “An Unlikely Shero: How Jawbreaker Helped Me Get My First Kiss”

 

Miss Congeniality

Miss Congeniality became a hit at such a critical time for young women who didn’t want to choose between glam and grit.”

-Aubrey Jacobowitz, “Satan’s Panties: Miss Congeniality and Fashion as Performance”

 

Bridget Jones’s Diary

Bridget Jones’s Diary is, to me, one of the more excellent romcoms because it does not require anything of its protagonist for her to be deserving of love.”

-Toju Adelaja, “To Bridget Jones, Just As She Is”

 

Booksmart

Booksmart’s real revelation, the one without a nature-meets-city metaphor or any major declaration: Molly and Amy don’t need to party to prove they have dimension,”

-Anna Sims, “On Booksmart Rewriting the Narrative of the Teenage Girl”

 

 

 

About Elizabeth Teets:

Elizabeth Teets is an Oregon born writer, comedian, screenwriter, and  fashionista. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York  Times, Repeller, Catapult, Reductress, and more. She lives in Los Angeles  where she is waiting for her group chat to respond.

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Isn't She Great Contributors 

Megan J. Kaleita is an essayist and memoirist living in the PAC Northwest. Her debut essay collection, This  Book is Brought to You By My Student Loans is available through Clash Books. Her work has appeared in  Ravishly, Hello Horror, Daily Drunk Mag, Luna Station Quarterly, and Lady Spike. Do not ask her for coffee. She  won’t get it for you. 

Samantha Mann is a Brooklyn based essayist. She is the author of Putting Out: Essays on Otherness. She  edited the anthology, I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy.  

Meg Walters is a Canadian-British writer currently living in London. Her writing has appeared in GQ, The  Daily Beast, Vulture, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and others. She is a great lover of classic films, rom-coms,  period dramas, pop culture, books and style and tries to write about them all as often as possible. Find her  on Twitter @wordsbymeg 

Toju Adelaja is a Nigerian-British writer and chick-flick connoisseur. Her work has appeared in publications  such as Glamour U.K. and Black Ballad.  

Ella Gale is a writer, director, and comedian in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s,  Reductress, and the Hard Times. 

Michele Theil is a journalist focusing on culture, race, LGBT+ issues and investigative pieces. She has been  published in VICE, Insider, Glamour, and others. She watches all the Bring It On movies at least once a  year. 

Lana Schwartz is a writer who was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to live today.  Her work has been published on The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Shondaland, Glamour, InStyle, and more. Her  book “Build Your Own Romantic Comedy” was released by Ulysses Press in March 2020. For more about  Lana - as well as instructions on how to pronounce her name - visit www.lanalikebanana.com. 

Yaël Krinsky is writer and comedian based in Boston, where she works in TV and Film Production. She  holds a writing and performance degree from Bard College. She currently lives with her dog Midge. 

 

Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a finished copy of ISN'T SHE GREAT, US Only.

Ends January 31st, midnight EST.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

1/15/2024

Two Chicks on Books

Guest Post

1/15/2024

@jaimerockstarbooktours

IG Post

1/16/2024

#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog

Spotlight/IG Post

1/16/2024

Kountry Girl Bookaholic

Guest Post/IG Post

1/17/2024

Lady Hawkeye

Excerpt/IG Post

1/17/2024

FUONLYKNEW

Guest Post/IG Post

1/18/2024

A Dream Within A Dream

Excerpt

1/18/2024

@fiction._.fuss

Excerpt/IG Post

1/19/2024

Rajiv's Reviews

Review/IG Post

1/19/2024

GryffindorBookishnerd

IG Review

Week Two:

1/22/2024

@callistoscalling

IG Review

1/22/2024

Confessions of the Perfect Mom

Review/IG Post

1/23/2024

@anitralovesbooksanddogs

IG Review

1/23/2024

Lisa-Queen of Random

Review/IG Post

1/24/2024

Country Mamas With Kids

Review/IG Post

1/24/2024

Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's

Review/IG Post

1/25/2024

@enjoyingbooksagain

IG Review

1/25/2024

A Blue Box Full of Books

IG Spotlight

1/26/2024

Books With a Chance

Review/IG Post

1/26/2024

The Momma Spot

Review


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