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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
Slightly rascist, sexism, and homophobic; mostly about the men she was fucking and not her solo travel adventures; I didn’t finish so maybe the author gets into it but she probably should’ve gone to therapy
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism
Spoiler
This was decent but I wanted to hear more about her adventures in other countries, not just about all the men she met or slept with. It felt a bit privileged and disconnected and ultimately she ends up exactly like all the friends she mentions in the book: married with children.
I'm missing travelling, popping into a bar for drinks, the chance to go on an adventure, all of the things!!!!! Pandemics that last many many months and that keep you in your own abode 90% of the time are for the birds.
All that is to say, I think I generously gave this an extra star because of it all. I quickly made it through this as I envy the ability to hop on a plane and be in an amazing and wonderful place. And since I can't do that myself right now-- live vicariously. It is easy to do with this book -- fast paced and funny.
Though, this is more about her single sex life than it is about the travel. But to be fair, almost all the sex is while traveling.
Last point, I was utterly unsurprised by the ending.
All that is to say, I think I generously gave this an extra star because of it all. I quickly made it through this as I envy the ability to hop on a plane and be in an amazing and wonderful place. And since I can't do that myself right now-- live vicariously. It is easy to do with this book -- fast paced and funny.
Though, this is more about her single sex life than it is about the travel. But to be fair, almost all the sex is while traveling.
Last point, I was utterly unsurprised by the ending.
Spoiler
She makes the statement that she wouldn't have written the book if she was still single... That may be true and all, but I also think this book wouldn't have been published if she was still single. Because you know, being a single 30-40 something woman is sad and no one really wants that anyway. So no way were publishers going to let someone --and by someone, I mean a woman--write a book about being perfectly fine with being single. The world could not take that.
adventurous
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
First couple of chapters hooked me, last chapter sold it. Middle chapters made me laugh at how terrible a person the author could be while also hoping she found her happy ending. Newman has great, vivid descriptions of the places she visits and now I must go to Iceland!
I didn't like this at first, finding the author to be (in her own words) self-involved and to have a tendency to inflict misery upon herself in the midst of a pretty amazing life. (I was also very jealous of her ability to travel wherever she wanted all over the world!) By the end, however, I was rooting for her and happy with how things turned out. It is a good read, whether you are interested in relationships or travel (or how Hollywood sitcom writing works), and at times, laugh-out-loud funny. A perfect summer vacation book (for those who aren't offended by frank discussions of casual sex).
Entertaining, especially if you've had these moments in your own life.
Funny but I'm not in the point in my life to really appreciate it right now. Maybe if I were single.
I had a lot of hope for this book but honestly, it was boring and dull. While all her friends were finding mates, getting married, and having babies, Kristen Newman was traveling around the world, sleeping with a new person in each country (or more), doing drugs, and drinking her life away. All the while claiming her life is awesome because she writes TV show scripts. Boring as hell. If I cared about someone doing a bunch of empty traveling (she doesn't tell us about the cities, instead focuses on the people she sleeps with), brags about her job (I don't care about hollywood and I find it all shallow and boring) and talks about how her life is not weighed down with a spouse or children, all the while lamenting she is alone. Pretty much watch any stupid reality tv show where people hook up, put a different country backdrop on it, and voila you have the majority of this book.
Huge disappointment, especially as a CFer.
Huge disappointment, especially as a CFer.