The Unhoneymooners (by Christina Lauren)

A fun romance with a bit of a stretch, premise-wise (the best man and maid of honor are the only two guests who don't get food poisoning at the wedding, and they go on the couple's honeymoon, and also they hate each other).  However, the characters are a delight, it's truly contemporary and funny, and the set of complications that ensue is convincingly organic!

I also enjoyed the little details -- the family being Latinx, the heroine being on the curvier side and embracing her curves, etc. If you like romcoms, don't miss this one, it's pure, marshmallowy, refreshingly unproblematic entertainment.

Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era (by Saul Austerlitz)

I learned about this book in Entertainment Weekly, which has now turned into a low-quality monthly magazine, which means my main source of book reviews and news has been pretty much gutted. I love(d) its mix of highbrow and lowbrow recommendations, along with pithy reviews. 

I get my litfic recs from the Tournament of Books and my sci-fi from John Scalzi's Big Idea series, but where will I find reviews of beach reads, young adult novels, women's contemporary, and nonfiction? If anyone has a good source for reviews in any of those genres, let me know, I am bereft and my library holds list is sad now.

Anyway, like many Gen X-ers (remember us? the forgotten generation?) I love Friends and was excited to read this. I wish it were in oral history format; instead it is told in very loose chronological order and has a lot of editorializing by the author. (I hate Donald Trump as much as the next person but did we really need Austerlitz's political musings? Not so much.)  I expected to tear through this like a sleeve of Thin Mints but instead it was kinda slow going.

I basically want to recapture the magic of Live from New York (the first edition only) with other shows I love, but it hasn't happened yet.