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wasn’t expecting the entire book to be about dating, but nevertheless I love Tinx & her stories were very entertaining. was a little repetitive.
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I feel a little bad giving such a low rating. I can tell the author is very passionate. There were many gripes I had with the book.
1) despite its short length, the book also felt long. The messaging was very repetitive: act like how you would treat your friend and be your own main character. Solid nuggets of wisdom, but sometimes the chapters felt so tangential to just get to the same idea.
2) I’m still kind of confused by the premise of the book. The author talks about not wanting to spend so much time thinking about guys because finding a man shouldn’t be the end goal, yet it seems like so much of her life/advice is focused on that or at least the first two thirds of the book were.
3) The format of the book threw me off a bit. Each chapter (which I did appreciate generally how short they were) began with a quote. Some of the quotes said, “Tinx Original,” yet I didn’t really think they were original. Maybe it’s because most of her quotes I had heard similar paraphrasing of before. It just felt a bit odd to write Tinx original, instead of just Tinx. Also, the glossary and the index at the end felt like filler pages. Perhaps they are there to refer back to certain parts later. Given my point 1, the repetition in the book, I don’t think I’ll be referring back to it because the messaging was repeated throughout.
4) I rate books lower when I start getting annoyed. I found myself getting annoyed when the author would make these blanket generalizations. I didn’t feel the generalizations were necessary and led to me not connecting with certain parts of the book.
5) My biggest gripe is here what I’ll call the “accountability chapter.” My gripe with her accountability chapter is similar to the one in Prince Harry’s the Spare, which I read earlier this month. So it’s fresh on my brain. For context, the author says she takes accountability for old-ish tweets that resurfaced when she became internet famous. She then goes on to give reasons why she wrote those tweets or liked or retweeted the posts in question.
Now, granted this book is the first time I’ve heard of Tinx or her tweets, but reading her reasons for them, sounded more like excuses. It sounded more like she was saying she was taking accountability, without actually showing it. I think it would have been better to acknowledge she was in a dark time when she wrote the tweets and she shouldn’t have done that, rather than go on for pages about the reasons why she did.
Also because this was the first time I learned of the tweets, her spending so much time on why of the tweets, rather than the accountability action, took me out of the flow of the book.
Happy that Tinx seems to be finding herself and she helps others, but I’m not her target audience. I read this for my Theta bookclub and probably wouldn’t have picked it up otherwise. I do think this makes a good discussion book.
1) despite its short length, the book also felt long. The messaging was very repetitive: act like how you would treat your friend and be your own main character. Solid nuggets of wisdom, but sometimes the chapters felt so tangential to just get to the same idea.
2) I’m still kind of confused by the premise of the book. The author talks about not wanting to spend so much time thinking about guys because finding a man shouldn’t be the end goal, yet it seems like so much of her life/advice is focused on that or at least the first two thirds of the book were.
3) The format of the book threw me off a bit. Each chapter (which I did appreciate generally how short they were) began with a quote. Some of the quotes said, “Tinx Original,” yet I didn’t really think they were original. Maybe it’s because most of her quotes I had heard similar paraphrasing of before. It just felt a bit odd to write Tinx original, instead of just Tinx. Also, the glossary and the index at the end felt like filler pages. Perhaps they are there to refer back to certain parts later. Given my point 1, the repetition in the book, I don’t think I’ll be referring back to it because the messaging was repeated throughout.
4) I rate books lower when I start getting annoyed. I found myself getting annoyed when the author would make these blanket generalizations. I didn’t feel the generalizations were necessary and led to me not connecting with certain parts of the book.
5) My biggest gripe is here what I’ll call the “accountability chapter.” My gripe with her accountability chapter is similar to the one in Prince Harry’s the Spare, which I read earlier this month. So it’s fresh on my brain. For context, the author says she takes accountability for old-ish tweets that resurfaced when she became internet famous. She then goes on to give reasons why she wrote those tweets or liked or retweeted the posts in question.
Now, granted this book is the first time I’ve heard of Tinx or her tweets, but reading her reasons for them, sounded more like excuses. It sounded more like she was saying she was taking accountability, without actually showing it. I think it would have been better to acknowledge she was in a dark time when she wrote the tweets and she shouldn’t have done that, rather than go on for pages about the reasons why she did.
Also because this was the first time I learned of the tweets, her spending so much time on why of the tweets, rather than the accountability action, took me out of the flow of the book.
Happy that Tinx seems to be finding herself and she helps others, but I’m not her target audience. I read this for my Theta bookclub and probably wouldn’t have picked it up otherwise. I do think this makes a good discussion book.
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