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Most fun I ve had reading in a long time Lilibet s tales in LA made me long for my 20s and be extremely glad they are over at the same time I appreciated her honesty about that unsure and exciting time of life and I hope to see from her in the future 159376541X I went to school with Lilibet s brother and picked up the book out of idle curiosity I was impressed immediately with her wit and perspective on life This was an enjoyable read 159376541X I was amazed after reading this novel to look on Goodreads and see that it only had 26 ratings Like really amazed Though I guess it makes sense considering it only came out in March I loved this book It wasn t perfect but it s inspiring and hopeful while refraining from being didactic Lilibeth Snellings graduated from college in Colorado hoping for a career in journalism She ended up living in L. Chocolate box girls books working as a waitress model actress writer Box Girl So hold up What is a Box Girl A box girl refers to one of the several woman who are hired to be a part of a performance art piece in the L. What is a box girl A hotel the Standard The woman hired work one night a week dressed in small white clothes and basically lounge around a glass box that is not big enough for them to stand in They can read they can sleep they can talk on the phone And yes they are allowed to leave to use the bathroom This is not just an interesting story though Snellings is a really good writer Like really good in my opinion She varies between describing a night in the box to her life prior to the job to her general observations about being in your 20s She dissects L. Box head girl tiktok A culture art the modeling and acting industries writing and quarter life crises all with a lot of talent and humor I m kind of glad in a way that I haven t seen a lot of other reviews about this book because I feel like this has the merit to become a big hit and I ll get to say I was one of the first to read it Snellings is both humorous and insightful about her life in a box She doesn t judge herself just as she doesn t judge the L. Box grill A people who surround her while she also acknowledges the absurdity and downsides of the job She describes the people who watch her and what they say she comments on technology today and the idea of how we are all voyeurs in today s society This is than just an amusing life story It s a real analysis of life in your 20s in modern society told with a lot of grace and thoughtfulness I really enjoyed it 159376541X Snellings does a great job of capturing that untethered feeling you might have in your 20 s if you come from a particular background educated with a secure parental financial safety net which gives you freedom but puts no less pressure on you to find out who you are becoming The frivolous and romantic notion that too much choice is just as bad as no choice at all Not sure I agree but Snellins could have taken this memoir and turned it into something gimmicky but instead I think she took an honest look at her experiences related them to the box experience and does so in a breezy conversational and thoughtful way without being too too serious about it 159376541X I finished this all in one sitting That s rare for me these days to do I have to say there were some things I felt like made me uncomfortable like near the end of the book with the guy I loved it overall 159376541X When 22 year old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim she unintentionally became a slash to keep her head above water a writer waitress actress Box Girl One night each week Lilibet would go to The Standard Hotel in West Hollywood don a pair of white boy shorts with a matching tank touch up her lip gloss and crawl into a giant glass case behind the front desk There she could do whatever she wanted check email catch up on reading even sleep as long as she ignored the many hotel guests who would point and ask the staff Is she allowed to use the bathroom Yes Dog paddling through her twenties Snellings resisted financial bailouts for the most part from her sweet Southern mother and business oriented dad while pondering her peculiar position as a human art installation Was she a piece of art or a piece of ass Was she allowed to read both Walt Whitman and US Weekly as she lounged in an oversized waterless aquarium behind a hotel concierge desk From misinterpreting a modeling agency interview as a talent audition to avoiding Bond girl style deaths at New Year s Eve parties Snellings shares and laughs at her many mishaps while living in LA Box GirlGave up on this one about halfway through The premise sounded fascinating a girl playing the part of artwork once a week in a clear glass box seemingly oblivious to everyone watching her Alas while the bits that were actually about that topic were interesting enough the book meanders quite a bit telling the story of the author s life in LA I should have gathered that by the last paragraph of the summary but I was too distracted the art display description I m sure many will enjoy this but for me it just didn t hold my attention 159376541X Not sure I m going to finish Snellings book isn t bad just not very interesting 159376541X Light and easy A nice diversion from deep memoirs filled with trauma Very little to tie all the essays together and the title is misleading That s okay since this is hardly a philosophical magnum opus If you cringe at privilege don t read this Her best little essays are about her parents They sound fun 159376541X Damn this book was bad I picked this up because I m a figure drawing model and thought it might be somewhat relatable It isn t but that isn t the book s job nor is it my reason for such a low rating This book is barely even about her job as a Box Girl and clearly just wanted to write about her pretty boring life under the guise of this quirky job that you might want to read about If you want to read a book about a girl whose biggest problems are that she is pretty enough to be mistaken for a model but not actually be a model that she is scraping by on her waitressing money because she is too proud to ask for cash from her parents who she describes as firmly planted in the 1 percent and how she ultimately winds up like the snobby people she waited on because duh then please read this mess of a memoir You also may come in contact with some micro racist and ableist remarks along the way and trite references to Didion and Whitman 159376541X Coming from Georgia Connecticut East Coast South and landing in Venice on the opposite side of LA her and I have had very different Los Angeles experiences I was born and raised in LA but all east of the 101 and one could practically claim we lived in different cities In Box Girl Lilibet talks about being raised by a family firmly planted in the one percent with a Southern liberal mother and a staunch republican father she discusses having a core group of 3 friends while entertaining herself in a top five party school hanging out in the pool while looking for a job afterwards and eventually becoming a slash in her case writer model waitress actress including working at a modeling agency and acting in a few commercials Though I ve worked many jobs in the struggle to pay the rent and reach adulthood I ve never been someone whose livelihood depended on their looks not to mention I m a bit of a late bloomer I was raised in a mixed race middle class family with two moms I went to school in the very liberal Johnston Program at the University of Redlands and graduated without grades and I ve always struggled to find my niche. Chocolate box girls books What I found in Box Girl is the story of another young lost but ambitious struggling girl who was dropped into an economically difficult climate with no idea where to go who wanted independence freedom and a financial stability that wasn t dependent on her parents This she captured beautifully the unique pain that comes from knowing you have choices but not knowing how to pursue them or which to pursue or how to even try all while finding a way to pay rent The questions that you have to face in that mid twenties quarter life crisis moment that feel like they will determine not just what you re going to be doing next week but somehow uncontrollably the rest of your life and the fear that comes from facing them And in the end the clarity with which you can look back on these years only a few months or a year later having made it through in a way after growing so much in so short a time with the security of knowing that it worked out in the end It s amazing how quickly you change between the ages of twenty one and twenty nine Though you ve probably shed the pure narcissism of being a teen life still feels like it revolves entirely around you in that unique self obsessed way of youth If I could go back and tell my twenty one or twenty two year old self that it get s betterwellI probably wouldn t have believed it from me either Instead I ll be trying to put a copy of Box Girl in the hands of every lost twenty something I see saying Yes I know you re busy looking for where life is going to take you but trust me this will help 159376541X