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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
This book read like a celebrity memoir similar to Tina Fey or Amy Poehler. While I couldn't identify with every piece, I appreciated the message that everyone lives on their own timeline
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
Entertaining travel read! Good mix of Chelsea Handler humor, Wanderlust and inspirational perspective of getting on a plane as often as possible!
having a hard time with book (culturally insensitive…. oversimplifying.., asian racism)
enjoyed this passage: joseph sued mary. idk why it took half the book for the author to share anything interesting abt herself
let me know why its immediately followed by the dominican repub colonization:… like she’s aware its bad but still doing it??
let me know why its immediately followed by the dominican repub colonization:… like she’s aware its bad but still doing it??
pg 160 haiti and HIV passage getting surgery? insufferable
this made me feel like anything was possible and gave me some pep in my step while traveling but… not great :/
this made me feel like anything was possible and gave me some pep in my step while traveling but… not great :/
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Overall this was a sweet, light and somewhat repetitive read. I found it very reflective and inspiring as a 26/27 year-old finding their way in the world. I want to travel more.
My favorite bits and bobs:
“Meanwhile, I spent a few months in both a metaphorical and literal fetal position, and wondered, like so many ex-girlfriends of forest rangers before me, if I would ever be able to use the tent he gave me for Valentine’s day again.” 19
My favorite bits and bobs:
“Meanwhile, I spent a few months in both a metaphorical and literal fetal position, and wondered, like so many ex-girlfriends of forest rangers before me, if I would ever be able to use the tent he gave me for Valentine’s day again.” 19
“One thing that a tortured, dramatic worldview does for someone is it makes him a HELL of a kisser.” 38
moo-cow 42
“I was looking for a “great guy with commitment issues.”—If you are looking for the magic words that will make you into a Pied Piper to men, those are the ones. So I spent a year leading rats around town with that particular flute, and then I met Ben.” 49
“Juan and I spent the next two months dating casually. By which I mean that I obsessed about him constantly, and he casually dated me.” 84
“Ultimately, the bridge fell in the middle of the night, when no one, including the cameras, could see it. The glacier would not perform on command.” 113
“the thing to do in the place to do it”
“(Lesbian bases, I’ve been told, involve a lot of baths and toys at first and second bases, and buying a house and building a compost garden together as you round third. A home run is when you’ve stopped having sex altogether and start a book club.)” 137
“Now, I was a guest in this country, and my mother taught me to eat what is being served, but I’ve always found this move to be in the ‘more-is-less’ department.” 144
“It was a fascinating thing to watch, this art imitating life that then changed because of the criticism of the art.” 168
You know I don’t trust you, right? Ben said.
I know!
I’m saying people. I’m not just going to stop doing that, he continued.
I get that.
Last week my band played the Roxy and there were these Russian teenagers throwing glitter at me. I woke up in the morning with glitter in my beard. That was awesome.
I know, I don’t want you to stop having glitter in your beard, I promised. 193
“life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome.” 216
everyone has 20 thoughts at all times, traveling forces them to change
fast-paced
The first half of this book felt like a normal gossip episode, but it fell off for me in the second half. The repeated fatphobic/pro-israel/slut-shaming/misogynistic comments were really tough to ignore.
I wanted to enjoy this book - and there were some parts I did - but my enjoyment was overshadowed by some of the problematic content and "jokes" the author made. There were a lot of racist and anti-semitic comments that she brushed off, and also an uncomfortable amount of joking about dating minors.
Rating two stars instead of one because of the line, "I hadn't found true love, but I had stumbled onto people who were going to make my life without it happier. My life was starting to become what it was supposed to be." The message of the book is an important one, but the problematic content was something I just couldn't get past.
Rating two stars instead of one because of the line, "I hadn't found true love, but I had stumbled onto people who were going to make my life without it happier. My life was starting to become what it was supposed to be." The message of the book is an important one, but the problematic content was something I just couldn't get past.