Seconded, I have read and re-read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn until the words were seared into my mind. This book and her other- Joy in the Morning - are still my comfort novels, read using the same battered paperbacks from my youth!

Having gone through (unsuccessful) IVF rounds myself all I am thinking about Beyonce (maybe??) and Amal is ‘who did the hormone injections? Did they, or did George or Jay Z? Or do they have a nurse with silk gloves who follows them around?’

I find this sort of thing hard since I am dealing with infertility but then I just realised that talking about kids (to strangers / acquaintances) or asking if they have kids is just small talk, conversational filler because they have nothing else to say to each other: the same reason we talk about jobs or the…

Support, but don’t offer false hope. IVF / Adoptions are not easy, and a child is not a given by any means. I’ve just failed a second round of IVF and if any more people tell me ‘oh it will definitely happen because it happened for my friend’ I want to scream. However, have had great friends who aren’t like that, and…

Yesss I love love love Omar Souleyman. Seen him play at a UK festival, a London grime night (yes really), but the best was randomly stumbling upon him playing at the Malmo free festival in Sweden, playing to what seemed to be primarily a Syrian crowd... Never seen a guy rock so many different parties/scenes with such…

I live in London, have done since I was in my early 20s and couldn’t hold my liquor.

It’s not just restaurants, but shops too: I worked at Topshop and Urban Outfitters in London as a student, and when people handed in a CV we were supposed to mark down whether they were dressed in a way that would suit the clothes on offer, so sort of fashionable. Ok, sure, I guess this is ok but I remember some south…

Though actually, Central Saint Martins as an art school isn’t all-white but is ridiculously international with students from every country under the sun (since international students pay higher tuitions they are actively courted ) so the ‘special snowflake’ argument doesn’t really apply.

Hi all, I don’t know where to put this but has anyone at Jezebel seen this story where one of the two female Tory candidates for Tory leadership in the UK said that she would be a better leader / prime minister than her childless (not by choice) opponent because she has children, which therefore makes her better?

Yes! I’m in my mid-30s and look at men in their mid to late 20s and they feel SO young to me. At the same time I have a guy friend who is in his early 40s who only dates women in their 20s which also creeps me out and completely baffles me because if 25 looks young to me, a 35 year old, I don’t wanna know what it…

I’m an American living in the UK, and often I will think that an American accent has caught my ear in a crowd and I perk my head up and then realise the person speaking is Irish, which made me realise that there is something (not sure what, I’m no expert) very similar between our two accents.

I love Malawi! Go there pretty regularly due to husband + fam supporting a Malawian-founded school (will leave name off due to my disgraceful online messiness)

Because it wasn’t child pornography? Have a look at the police report that Radar links to and a lot of the child photos / strange nudes etc are art, maybe sort of ‘provocative’ (for some people) art, but within the artistic canon and not really anything to write home about.

They are horrible (or, if not horrible, not as exciting as people say)... I’ve experienced a sort-of similar situation where I moved to the UK, have lived here for 13 years, and now, having lived here for so long whenever I actually do eat Girl Scout cookies, birthday cakes from supermarkets, funfetti cake mix, ie ALL…

Nah, just moved to study in London and realised that everyone was way more relaxed about drug use than in the US... When in Rome, right? :)

Well... Uh... I spent my bachelor’s and masters in a fug of recreational pills and powders and both maintained my GPA, kept my scholarship and then got a distinction in my master’s (I was a partier and a nerd, what can I say)... It’s definitely possible to do both, and what is university if not to do lots of stupid…

While I have been reading the comments on Jezebel for years, I am using my first comment I’ve ever posted to say: this is MY LOCAL and I’m well proud of it #sawf #lahndahn