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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
“I always say that I need to travel to keep from dying of boredom from my own internal monologue. I think that, generally, most of us have a total of about twenty thoughts. And we just scroll through those thoughts, over and over again, in varying order, all day every day........ When you travel you’re forced to have new thoughts. “Is this alley safe?” “Is this the right bus?” “Was this meat ever a house pet?”
I love to travel and believe everyone should spend time traveling so as to open minds and hearts to other people and ideas and experiences. I’ve met people who have never left their state, which is just a tragedy. If I had my way I would sell almost everything, get a small condo for a home base, and spend most of the time traveling and experiencing new things. As far as this book is concerned, I really enjoyed reading about her travel experiences, especially as a woman. Her writing is funny (she is a professional comedy writer after all...) and the book was fun in a light summer read sort of way. I didn’t love it though, it was just average outside of that. It is possible to travel as a woman without a partner and without having a romance. But what really turned me off was the final chapter. It was like it was written by someone else and it got kind of preachy in a moral of the story kind of way that was just ugh.
I love to travel and believe everyone should spend time traveling so as to open minds and hearts to other people and ideas and experiences. I’ve met people who have never left their state, which is just a tragedy. If I had my way I would sell almost everything, get a small condo for a home base, and spend most of the time traveling and experiencing new things. As far as this book is concerned, I really enjoyed reading about her travel experiences, especially as a woman. Her writing is funny (she is a professional comedy writer after all...) and the book was fun in a light summer read sort of way. I didn’t love it though, it was just average outside of that. It is possible to travel as a woman without a partner and without having a romance. But what really turned me off was the final chapter. It was like it was written by someone else and it got kind of preachy in a moral of the story kind of way that was just ugh.
Worth a read/listen, but made me feel like I haven't "misspent" enough of my single-traveler life having sexy encounters with beautiful strangers in foreign countries yet. However, I've still got time to do that and this was a fun listen to enhance coming down with a case of the f*ckits next time I'm traveling.
Such a fun, flirty, and engaging read. I felt like I was having coffee with the author hearing all her stories from traveling the world. Must read for single girls!
Though I enjoyed reading about the travel elements, and related somewhat to the being the only single girl left. I found the last chapter of the book pretty terrible regarding how she wrote about her stepmother. The things she said were so harsh and seemed inappropriate given the circumstances - especially because I do not believe it was relevant to the rest of the book. Do yourself a favor if you are going read this book and stop reading after they go to the circus and skip to the epilogue.
I had such high hopes - what a great title. It's a title that I might have used for my own memoir. But I can only give it 2 stars. "It was OK."
And perhaps that was my problem with this book. I've lived my own version of a single-woman-traveling-and-having-adventures-of-all-sorts life, so this wasn't exactly a titillating story. Just a long accounting/brag about her travels and her relationship mistakes. It had some high points and held my interest for about the first 100 pages, and then it was just more and more of the same. Until, naturally, it reached the logical conclusion that yes - of course - all of this was naturally leading to a husband and two kids. Because where else could it possibly be leading??
Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this ARC from Random House.
And perhaps that was my problem with this book. I've lived my own version of a single-woman-traveling-and-having-adventures-of-all-sorts life, so this wasn't exactly a titillating story. Just a long accounting/brag about her travels and her relationship mistakes. It had some high points and held my interest for about the first 100 pages, and then it was just more and more of the same. Until, naturally, it reached the logical conclusion that yes - of course - all of this was naturally leading to a husband and two kids. Because where else could it possibly be leading??
Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this ARC from Random House.
Drawing from the same well of humor that provides lines for shows such as How I Met Your Mother, Kristin Newman brings her international travel stories to the page in What I Was Doing while You Were Breeding. After several failed relationships, Newman sets out on many trips between show writing season and pursues short-term flings with whatever local men are available — or not — in the places she visits, which she calls “vacationships.”
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adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
