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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
I related to this a lot, except that I am probably ever more embarrassing. It's not just about the mythical, confusing world of romantic entanglements, but also about the power of female friendships. Really loved it. Light, funny, but also kind of powerful.
3.5 rounded up to 4 stars for GoodReads. Very funny. Longer review coming. Review is here!
I have a bit of guilt about this review. I got it as an ARC from NetGalley ages ago (okay, just January). Free book? Check. When I used it as my #FridayReads, Katie Heaney, the author, favorited my tweet. Author encouragement? Check. Then, when I rated the book here and wrote "3.5 rounded up to 4 stars for GoodReads. Very funny. Longer review coming," she liked that. I get free books and encouragement; she gets radio silence in return.
So, I definitely didn't request that book because I also have enjoyed being single for roughly the same number of years. Or because the author was also from Minnesota. Or because I'm what Katie has termed a Bermuda Triangle ("It doesn’t mean to do any harm, and it’s actually pretty nice once you get to know it. It’s just that Bermuda doesn’t know how to handle itself when somebody sails into its territory, because that hardly ever happens.").
Nope. Not true. That's not why at all.
Never Have I Ever was hilarious. It routinely turned me into that weird girl laughing at her ereader on the bus or in the break room. Despite the fact that it sounds like a dating memoir, it's really much more about friendship with a healthy side of funny dating mishaps. Katie is funny, relatable (oh no, I'm parroting the blurb), slightly neurotic, and excellent at telling stories. She's someone with whom I would want to be friends. Proof:
*On online dating profiles: "I am no interests snob. I listed the Harry Potter books in order of how much I liked them in my 'favorite books' section, for God's sake."
*"I have lived twenty-five years in this body by myself, and I feel pretty confident that, by now, my personality is staying as it is. I'm going to continue enjoying plans and Post-its and clean, orderly spaces."
*"She was saying she was sorry that she couldn’t always hang out when I wanted to, but that 'when you get a boyfriend,' he becomes the only person you want to spend all your time with....“You’ll know what I mean, when you get one,” she said. So that’s when I gripped my upper jaw and pulled back the skin and muscle of my face to reveal an alien, like the one in the film Alien, and I jumped through the glass in Leigh’s window and ate every boyfriend in the city, and the country, and the world. I swallowed them whole, and many of them cried, and those were the ones I liked best."
Also, she comes right out and tells us "I'm not trying to be self-righteous about that, but I am literally the best friend a person could ask for..."
I'll stop throwing quotations from the book at you now. If you're looking for a light-hearted, funny read, Never Have I Ever is for you!
Originally reviewed on Owl You Need is a Good Read. I received an ARC of Never Have I Ever through NetGalley.
I have a bit of guilt about this review. I got it as an ARC from NetGalley ages ago (okay, just January). Free book? Check. When I used it as my #FridayReads, Katie Heaney, the author, favorited my tweet. Author encouragement? Check. Then, when I rated the book here and wrote "3.5 rounded up to 4 stars for GoodReads. Very funny. Longer review coming," she liked that. I get free books and encouragement; she gets radio silence in return.
So, I definitely didn't request that book because I also have enjoyed being single for roughly the same number of years. Or because the author was also from Minnesota. Or because I'm what Katie has termed a Bermuda Triangle ("It doesn’t mean to do any harm, and it’s actually pretty nice once you get to know it. It’s just that Bermuda doesn’t know how to handle itself when somebody sails into its territory, because that hardly ever happens.").
Nope. Not true. That's not why at all.
Never Have I Ever was hilarious. It routinely turned me into that weird girl laughing at her ereader on the bus or in the break room. Despite the fact that it sounds like a dating memoir, it's really much more about friendship with a healthy side of funny dating mishaps. Katie is funny, relatable (oh no, I'm parroting the blurb), slightly neurotic, and excellent at telling stories. She's someone with whom I would want to be friends. Proof:
*On online dating profiles: "I am no interests snob. I listed the Harry Potter books in order of how much I liked them in my 'favorite books' section, for God's sake."
*"I have lived twenty-five years in this body by myself, and I feel pretty confident that, by now, my personality is staying as it is. I'm going to continue enjoying plans and Post-its and clean, orderly spaces."
*"She was saying she was sorry that she couldn’t always hang out when I wanted to, but that 'when you get a boyfriend,' he becomes the only person you want to spend all your time with....“You’ll know what I mean, when you get one,” she said. So that’s when I gripped my upper jaw and pulled back the skin and muscle of my face to reveal an alien, like the one in the film Alien, and I jumped through the glass in Leigh’s window and ate every boyfriend in the city, and the country, and the world. I swallowed them whole, and many of them cried, and those were the ones I liked best."
Also, she comes right out and tells us "I'm not trying to be self-righteous about that, but I am literally the best friend a person could ask for..."
I'll stop throwing quotations from the book at you now. If you're looking for a light-hearted, funny read, Never Have I Ever is for you!
Originally reviewed on Owl You Need is a Good Read. I received an ARC of Never Have I Ever through NetGalley.
The beginning part of this book (which talks about crushes and the absence of any boyfriends from kindergarten to high school) I really could have done without. It felt really unnecessary and was a bit boring.
The rest of the book I quite enjoyed. It was fun reading about Katie's experiences of dating and non-dating in her early twenties and I could definitely relate at a few points.
The rest of the book I quite enjoyed. It was fun reading about Katie's experiences of dating and non-dating in her early twenties and I could definitely relate at a few points.
Honestly, why was this book published? Is it that we have lowered the literary standard and anything can get published? I am not being mean but I just don't understand how this became a book. I am baffled as to why Heaney decided to write and get this book published.
Again, I am really not trying to be mean but I am clueless as to why I just finished reading the meanderings of a 25yr old whose never been on a date, starting from pre-school at that. It wasn't a funny or witty it was just meh...
Please, save yourselves...
Again, I am really not trying to be mean but I am clueless as to why I just finished reading the meanderings of a 25yr old whose never been on a date, starting from pre-school at that. It wasn't a funny or witty it was just meh...
Please, save yourselves...
This is more like 4.5 stars; I really, really enjoyed it but I did feel the beginning was a little slow. I related to so much of the book in a painful good way. The way Katie writes is very much the way my friends and I talk, which I appreciated. Once I was able to get through the beginning though, I just kind of tore through the book.
Cutesy and fluffy with quick vignettes that are easy to read in short chunks. A good beach read.
Annoyed that I didn't research her as an author first as this whole experience is basically negated by her next few years and other books. Not to her, I'm sure, but as a reader. Also very much about WANTING to date, which I wasn't expecting it to lean on quite as heavily.