Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was) | 
pickIf you enjoyed The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman, this is the logical next book to read. It‘s difficult not to compare the two, but they are very different books. I really liked both! This one is much more conversational, and features many asides about the author‘s personal experiences. Shade is the same age as me, so this book just HIT! I loved revisiting many moments in the 2000s: teen stars, rap, politics, 9/11, financial crisis, etc.
pickWhat Chuck Klosterman did for The Nineties, Shade does for the 2000s, which she counts from 1997-2008. She looks mainly at pop culture trends, but she looks deeply at them and how they were shaped by national and global forces like the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of big tech, and the lead up the global recession. Highly recommend!!
pickI really enjoyed this book - blend of descriptive and well researched history of the “Y2K Era” of 1997 through 2008 in the US with personal commentary. The author is a year younger than me, so much of what she wrote rang familiar to my own formative years from middle to high school and college.
