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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
I love Katie Heaney.
This charming, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny autobiography of hers was a delight to read, as she explains her permanent single status from her first kindergarten crush(es) to last year's awkward OkCupid date.
Ah Rachel, I most certainly do.
+10 funny points for her hilarious rant about PowerPoint presentations.
This charming, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny autobiography of hers was a delight to read, as she explains her permanent single status from her first kindergarten crush(es) to last year's awkward OkCupid date.
"You'll probably wish she was your best friend." - Rachel Bertsche
Ah Rachel, I most certainly do.
+10 funny points for her hilarious rant about PowerPoint presentations.
Won't lie, I was kind of hoping to get an epiphany about my own luckless dating life from this book but no dice. It's all very relate-able though and it's nice to know that I'm not the only one that this shit isn't second nature for. She uses "goddamn" a lot and that's my favorite curse so
This book is great for single ladies in their twenties, especially if their romantic history has been a fairly complicated or dreadful experience. Katie knows exactly how to take her tragic dating-attempts, and crush-stalking and transform it into a memoir that not only shows humor, but hope that, even if you have always been single, you can be okay where you are. If finding you are finding yourself struggling in the dating world, and you do not mind a bit of profanity, this book is worth a shot. If anything, it should spark a chuckle or two.
I really liked this book. It made me realize a lot about myself and that I'm not alone. I can't wait for her next book!
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There are two types of memoirs (okay, so there are probably more than two, but for the purpose of this review there are two types of memoirs.)
There are the memoirs that are deep and moving and inspire you to be a better person.
Then there are the memoirs that you read because you are kind of bummed that you decided to stop seeing that dude you went on two kind-of dates with. And you want to feel a little less lame about your (lack of) love life.
This is the latter. And it did it job well -- kind of shallow, laugh-out-loud funny (literally), and a nice reminder other people suck at dating as much as you do.
There are the memoirs that are deep and moving and inspire you to be a better person.
Then there are the memoirs that you read because you are kind of bummed that you decided to stop seeing that dude you went on two kind-of dates with. And you want to feel a little less lame about your (lack of) love life.
This is the latter. And it did it job well -- kind of shallow, laugh-out-loud funny (literally), and a nice reminder other people suck at dating as much as you do.
I actually enjoyed the book itself, but the low rating is related to the audiobook narration. It was just so flat and not well done at all. It made the book more difficult to follow and really was just something I couldn't get past.
Soooo this was pretty funny most of the time (I laughed harder at the post-grad stories than the early childhood ones), but the title is misleading. The “never have I ever” is 100% Heaney’s interpretation of “never.” So there’s that.
Still, it was a fun book. And who else forgot about rollerball lip gloss you could get at roller rinks???
Still, it was a fun book. And who else forgot about rollerball lip gloss you could get at roller rinks???
I am particularly glad this book exists. Being nearly as old as the author (and having gone to both college and graduate school) I liked the way she structured her memoir and the way she discussed dealing with her own desires. She discussed the way her personal life affected who she is and her self-conception. It would have been interesting to see how her personal life affected the other things she did (studies, employment, studying abroad, etc.) but it’s a memoir about one thing not an exhaustive autobiography. The writing was free in the sense that she was able to use her humor effectively and it is very well written overall. I’m glad young people are able to publish books like this.
There could have been a little more detail about her life and the dynamics of the way she felt about relationships, and perhaps a little more skepticism about the ways in which she narrated her life and her sentiments about relationships, but this is a minor suggestion. The text opens itself to all sorts of psychologizing and skepticism, all of which strikes me as completely unwarranted and beside the point. She is adamant about being comfortable with herself as someone who has never had a relationship and she presents this convincingly. From the memoir it’s evident that she’s smart funny, mature, and beautiful, and I really hope that she is able to experience being confidently in love and intimate with anyone person she has a physical relationship with. Actually I hope everyone who want to experiences that, but I suppose I actively want her specifically to since I read her memoir in pursuit of that goal.
Reading it helped me to reflect on my own relationship successes and (more common) failures. I want to be more forward and up front about communicating the fact that I may be interested in someone in the future. It’s a good reminder that figuring out if one is compatible with someone in a relationship context is really, really hard. I hope that for those who aren’t fully satisfied with the relationship they have had and have not had (i.e. everybody) can learn how not to let this fact define them and to have a positive attitude going forward, and not to treat one’s relationship history as an essential, life-defining characteristic.
There could have been a little more detail about her life and the dynamics of the way she felt about relationships, and perhaps a little more skepticism about the ways in which she narrated her life and her sentiments about relationships, but this is a minor suggestion. The text opens itself to all sorts of psychologizing and skepticism, all of which strikes me as completely unwarranted and beside the point. She is adamant about being comfortable with herself as someone who has never had a relationship and she presents this convincingly. From the memoir it’s evident that she’s smart funny, mature, and beautiful, and I really hope that she is able to experience being confidently in love and intimate with anyone person she has a physical relationship with. Actually I hope everyone who want to experiences that, but I suppose I actively want her specifically to since I read her memoir in pursuit of that goal.
Reading it helped me to reflect on my own relationship successes and (more common) failures. I want to be more forward and up front about communicating the fact that I may be interested in someone in the future. It’s a good reminder that figuring out if one is compatible with someone in a relationship context is really, really hard. I hope that for those who aren’t fully satisfied with the relationship they have had and have not had (i.e. everybody) can learn how not to let this fact define them and to have a positive attitude going forward, and not to treat one’s relationship history as an essential, life-defining characteristic.
Somewhere between 3.5 and 4. It's not earth-shattering, but I did really enjoy it. A lot better than some other quirky girl memoirs that have come out in the last few years.
At times I related to this book so much I thought I wrote it - or that Katie Heaney had been reading my diary. It's fun, hopeful, relatable, and hilarious. Enjoy with a glass of wine!