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wdanger's review
2.0
I meannnnnn... I do identify with this author; I too am from an abusive background who is no longer in touch with their family. I struggle with isolation similarly to Lane. I was hoping this book would dive more deeply into those themes. This book felt incomplete-- kind of a half way advice book, a half way autobiography, and falls down on both counts.
audreyguerita's review
5.0
This book is like a giant hug. Like a hug you get when all you’re doing is trying not to cry and you keep people from touching you when all you really desperately want is to be touched and held... and then you finally let someone do it and you realized more than ever how much you needed the hug.
kyokokk's review
4.0
孤独な生い立ちを経てstruggleする、女性がミュージシャン、コメディアンとして成長していく生い立ちエッセイ。
生い立ちに傷がたくさんあっても、人を愛して生きていける勇気を感じた。
アタッチメント理論についてもっと知りたくなった。
生い立ちに傷がたくさんあっても、人を愛して生きていける勇気を感じた。
アタッチメント理論についてもっと知りたくなった。
bwad3's review
3.0
So….you never learn how to be alone. I appreciate Lane’s stories and comedic take on her life. Was hoping for more advice. At least this book made me grateful for my friends and family.
alexrobinsonsupergenius's review against another edition
4.0
Less a How to be Alone and more Why I Am Alone, the author chronicles her growing up with awful parents and dating awful people. It’s funny in the ironic way you’d expect from an Onion writer and made me very glad I never had to navigate dating the the digital age because it sounds dreadful.
sidewriter's review
4.0
You might expect this book to be dark and sad, but it is absolutely not. Lane Moore has been through some shit, and she has also clearly done (and is doing) the emotional work to process that shit into compost for her garden, which is full of both frivolous flowers and nutritious food. She has an economy with words that keeps everything sharp -- including and especially the frequent barbs of humor she spots and highlights throughout her journey. And it is an intense journey -- through an abusive family that is sometimes also well-intentioned, through several bad relationships with partners who replicate aspects of that abuse, through random beautiful moments that she sometimes recognizes and sometimes is too damaged to enjoy. This is a book that takes pain and makes it beautiful and funny and hopeful without obscuring it. I really loved it.
nscurlock's review
5.0
If you haven't yet, treat yourself to this honest, soul-bearing collection of personal essays. Full of heart and raw emotion, you will laugh out loud and nod along as Lane puts into words what many women have felt and experienced at different times in our lives. Reads like you're having a conversation with your best girlfriend. NOTE: You don't have to be single to LOVE THIS BOOK!