the_lirazel reviewed Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis
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I read a first edition (owned by a spinster artist) and I am truly shocked to discover that it's been reprinted. Aside from some really "yikes" lines and the kind of heteronormativity/ableism/etc. you'd expect, it holds up surprisingly well? I'm tickled that the chapter on which alcoholic beverages to buy and serve is more in-depth than the money matters chapter. Worth reading for the extremely 1930s-working-girl of it all. Katharine Hepburn and Jean Arthur wouldn't need this book, but a Margaret Sullavan or Ginger Rogers character would probably have had it on her bedside table.