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jessicaleeparker's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
moniquemanike's review
3.0
I couldn't relate to all of this but the bits I could I found insightful. I appreciate her attempts to locate herself (from the very first page) and acknowledge where she was speaking from as a middle class straight white cis woman. If she hadn't this book would have suffered greatly. It did annoy me that it took getting to the last few pages of a 300 page book for her to even mention neoliberalism and its dehumanising effects, almost as an afterthought.
eri_123's review
5.0
A thousand times yes! To be totally Gen Y about it, this book is my spirit animal. It takes all my muddled thoughts on growing up, "adulthood", "direction", life, career, friendships and relationships and family, and explores these ideas pragmatically. It inspects and interrogates the conventions of the weird process of growing up and tells an interesting, conversational tale as it does. It's not a memoir, but a thoughtful reflection of the ideas we all have about adulthood (I mean to say - the many and varied ideas about adulthood that different people have). It includes an impressive selection of interviews of interesting people as well as an academic look at things - the author's academic background gives this book a beautiful tone, and her ability to scrutinise her personal experiences is gold. It may surprise the author, but her personal experiences are even a little bit inspiring.
I can't speak for older people, but it seems like the exploration of both her and her parents' personal experiences would open the book's audience to people of all ages. This book could bridge the occasionally toxic gap between the generations, or at least provide some morsels to encourage understanding of the challenges of adulthood in this time.
The book does not purport to give answers, but raise questions, and challenge us.
One that I will continue to muse on for some time.
I can't speak for older people, but it seems like the exploration of both her and her parents' personal experiences would open the book's audience to people of all ages. This book could bridge the occasionally toxic gap between the generations, or at least provide some morsels to encourage understanding of the challenges of adulthood in this time.
The book does not purport to give answers, but raise questions, and challenge us.
One that I will continue to muse on for some time.
wtb_michael's review
5.0
This is brilliantly incisive, thought-provoking and regularly laugh-out-loud funny. Doyle is super smart, and lays out an original and sharp analysis of what adulthood means in our current age.
georgia29's review
3.0
*3.5* This was a great read as the author is from my city so I could recognise allot of her story in mine. Great to know my doubts and insecurities are not in isolation and this is a messy time for my generation.
June 2018: Have lowered my reading a fraction has it is now not very memorable for me. Would still happily lend my copy to friends though.
June 2018: Have lowered my reading a fraction has it is now not very memorable for me. Would still happily lend my copy to friends though.
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