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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
Listening to the audiobook of this felt a lot like listening to someone narrate my life. There were so many bizarre similarities between what I've experienced in my life and what Katie Heaney writes about here that I kept finding myself saying "Me too. ME TOO. MEEE TOO!!!" I knew I was going to love this book as soon as she wrote about her love for Jonathan Taylor Thomas and the anger that she felt when he cut his hair. That was toward the beginning, and I was still feeling that way toward the end when she got into all of the reasons why she believes online dating is the worst. If one more person tells me I should "try online dating" I am going to scream. I am going to scream because 1. I also assume that they are also psycho killers, and also because the people always telling me that just don't get me.
I loved this book because it made me feel like less of a weirdo in life. I don't date. I don't try, and it's because I just don't care. There are many other things in life that are more important to me. When I was younger, much like the author notes that she could go back to any year of her life and tell you what boy she had a crush on then, I could do that too. From pre-school the whole way up until about the point that I was 25 or so. And then I just stopped caring. Now I don't worry about anyone but myself and that has been working out pretty well for me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
This book covers 25 years of the author anguishing over boy drama. Toward the end, she notes how there were times that she turned down dates she could have had if she'd really wanted to take them, but she wasn't going to settle. And I appreciated that.
The problem with being habitually single is that as you get older, more of your friends get married and have kids and move and they only hang out with other couples or other families and everything is play dates, etc. That's all well and good. But in the shuffle of all of that, single people get kind of forgotten. I don't ever feel lonely because I'm not dating someone. I feel lonely because I miss my friends and I miss hanging out with them the way we used to when they were all single and didn't have obligations. That said, I am generally quite happy to partake in family-friendly activities. But this book addresses most of that feeling, especially toward the end as she gets older and knows that those things are going to happen. She talks about how happy she is with her friends and how she kind of just wants them to stay single for her. All of that was/is me. I'm trying to adapt.
In the end, I looked the author up and discovered that, by reading something she did for Buzzfeed, it seems as though she is no longer single. So while she wrote a pretty great book that profiled minds and lives that are eerily similar to mine, she is apparently out of the club. I might be one of the only people still in the club. It is what it is.
Good read. Quick read. The voice is really good, and even though the narrator wasn't always my favorite and the audio quality was terrible, I still really enjoyed this. It was great as a comfort read.
I loved this book because it made me feel like less of a weirdo in life. I don't date. I don't try, and it's because I just don't care. There are many other things in life that are more important to me. When I was younger, much like the author notes that she could go back to any year of her life and tell you what boy she had a crush on then, I could do that too. From pre-school the whole way up until about the point that I was 25 or so. And then I just stopped caring. Now I don't worry about anyone but myself and that has been working out pretty well for me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
This book covers 25 years of the author anguishing over boy drama. Toward the end, she notes how there were times that she turned down dates she could have had if she'd really wanted to take them, but she wasn't going to settle. And I appreciated that.
The problem with being habitually single is that as you get older, more of your friends get married and have kids and move and they only hang out with other couples or other families and everything is play dates, etc. That's all well and good. But in the shuffle of all of that, single people get kind of forgotten. I don't ever feel lonely because I'm not dating someone. I feel lonely because I miss my friends and I miss hanging out with them the way we used to when they were all single and didn't have obligations. That said, I am generally quite happy to partake in family-friendly activities. But this book addresses most of that feeling, especially toward the end as she gets older and knows that those things are going to happen. She talks about how happy she is with her friends and how she kind of just wants them to stay single for her. All of that was/is me. I'm trying to adapt.
In the end, I looked the author up and discovered that, by reading something she did for Buzzfeed, it seems as though she is no longer single. So while she wrote a pretty great book that profiled minds and lives that are eerily similar to mine, she is apparently out of the club. I might be one of the only people still in the club. It is what it is.
Good read. Quick read. The voice is really good, and even though the narrator wasn't always my favorite and the audio quality was terrible, I still really enjoyed this. It was great as a comfort read.
I really enjoyed this. As the reader, you are taken throughout all of Katie's crushes from Kindergarten - age 25. I really liked learning about her crushes and the details behind him. This was very entertaining learning about Katie and her journey through dating (sort of). I felt connected to her at times especially her middle school days. Although I am different than Katie, I saw some similarities we share. I was connected to her in the way that I was rooting for a date or boy she encountered.
I laughed-out-loud quite a lot throughout this book. Seriously, KATIE CAN WE BE FRIENDS? She's hilarious!
This is definitely a great pick me up!
I didn't give this the full 5 stars only because I felt that she could've easily made more of an effort with relationships AND I didn't get to know about her for a bit, I didn't find out until the last few chapters where she was from and I was searching for her family. I was constantly wondering if she was an only child but she says she does have two brothers but, I wanted more. IT'S A MEMOIR!!
Overall, I'd pick this up again but I'd need post-its and a pencil - which I didn't have -
I laughed-out-loud quite a lot throughout this book. Seriously, KATIE CAN WE BE FRIENDS? She's hilarious!
This is definitely a great pick me up!
I didn't give this the full 5 stars only because I felt that she could've easily made more of an effort with relationships AND I didn't get to know about her for a bit, I didn't find out until the last few chapters where she was from and I was searching for her family. I was constantly wondering if she was an only child but she says she does have two brothers but, I wanted more. IT'S A MEMOIR!!
Overall, I'd pick this up again but I'd need post-its and a pencil - which I didn't have -
I enjoyed reading this memoir style book by Katie Heaney and liked the fact that it was honest and straight forward. I liked how the sections were divided and while reading I was nodding my head, understanding and thinking about myself and my lack of dating. It even made me think of my crushes and of course Jonathan Taylor Thomas as well :)
I am glad Katie Heaney wrote this book and was not afraid to lay everything on the table, not only was this a personal story but she was happy and straight forward talking about it.
I cannot wait to read some of her other pieces of writing.
I am glad Katie Heaney wrote this book and was not afraid to lay everything on the table, not only was this a personal story but she was happy and straight forward talking about it.
I cannot wait to read some of her other pieces of writing.
I don't understand what she was trying to do here. I had high hopes for this book but I found it to be a boring and tedious read. I actually skipped the entire grad school section because I didn't feel like reading more of the same nonsense. I just wanted to get through it as quickly as possible because I kept hoping it would get better, it didn't. This had the potential to be a great book but there were so many things missing and I just kept thinking "shut up" as I was reading the essays. That being said, the book isn't horrible but it definitely isn't my cup of tea.
IQ "I think I'm going to call my friends for advice more often than I should, but it's just because I love them so much and I want to talk to them every minute. And they really are so perfect and mean so much that it's hard to imagine I could meet anyone else who would make me as happy, much less even happier still." 251
My humorous book streak successfully continues! More than anything else though this book is about the love a girl has for her friends, it is the epitome of the SATC quote (or wherever it came from) about friends being our soulmates. I firmly believe that and I really related to her quote because sometimes I'll bug my friends from home while I'm in school about minor little problems just because I miss our vocal group discussions. And when I post in the GroupMe I can practically hear their voices offering different pieces of advice depending on personality. Furthermore props to the author's friends because this girl was driving me nuts. I've dated sparingly (college senior currently) with a couple of years in between each boyfriend and I've always struggled with confidence and feeling awkward. Thus I was looking forward to reading this memoir based on an excerpt I read a year ago in Buzzfeed. I think I have a friend scarily similar to Katie and it drives me nuts when she runs away from guys who are clearly interested in her, Katie explains why she doesn't date just to date but unfortunately I finished her book still not completely understanding that philosophy.
That being said I still found the book highly entertaining with great adages of wisdom such as; "Everybody should sit at home from ages eleven to fourteen. People at that age are too mean and weird and dumb to be let out in public" (37)". I don't understand anyone who actually liked middle school unless you were in the popular group so this was perhaps the truest statement I'd ever read on the topic. Kids are just mean at that age, I much preferred high school. Anyway tidbits such as that kept me turning the pages and I loved how she described her conflicted emotions over her friends dating, especially when they date lame guys. She has a great voice and I think I can confidently say she is a voice of a generation and I'm glad someone is talking about how screw virginity, not dating isn't a big deal either (people focus so much on not shaming people for being virgins which I get but are far less tolerant of people who lack sexual experience of any kind).
Final favorite quote; "So I sometimes use height to make adjustments to my all-star celebrity crush team where I can, though I've learned that this is a hard game to win at in Hollywood, where the world's mot beautiful, tiny little men go to live and work" (11).
My humorous book streak successfully continues! More than anything else though this book is about the love a girl has for her friends, it is the epitome of the SATC quote (or wherever it came from) about friends being our soulmates. I firmly believe that and I really related to her quote because sometimes I'll bug my friends from home while I'm in school about minor little problems just because I miss our vocal group discussions. And when I post in the GroupMe I can practically hear their voices offering different pieces of advice depending on personality. Furthermore props to the author's friends because this girl was driving me nuts. I've dated sparingly (college senior currently) with a couple of years in between each boyfriend and I've always struggled with confidence and feeling awkward. Thus I was looking forward to reading this memoir based on an excerpt I read a year ago in Buzzfeed. I think I have a friend scarily similar to Katie and it drives me nuts when she runs away from guys who are clearly interested in her, Katie explains why she doesn't date just to date but unfortunately I finished her book still not completely understanding that philosophy.
That being said I still found the book highly entertaining with great adages of wisdom such as; "Everybody should sit at home from ages eleven to fourteen. People at that age are too mean and weird and dumb to be let out in public" (37)". I don't understand anyone who actually liked middle school unless you were in the popular group so this was perhaps the truest statement I'd ever read on the topic. Kids are just mean at that age, I much preferred high school. Anyway tidbits such as that kept me turning the pages and I loved how she described her conflicted emotions over her friends dating, especially when they date lame guys. She has a great voice and I think I can confidently say she is a voice of a generation and I'm glad someone is talking about how screw virginity, not dating isn't a big deal either (people focus so much on not shaming people for being virgins which I get but are far less tolerant of people who lack sexual experience of any kind).
Final favorite quote; "So I sometimes use height to make adjustments to my all-star celebrity crush team where I can, though I've learned that this is a hard game to win at in Hollywood, where the world's mot beautiful, tiny little men go to live and work" (11).
This was a bit of an odd experience to read since, similar to the author, I have no experience in dating (except I am even less experienced than the author). However, there are certain things in this that were great to hear from another person and not just one of my own musings.
I just love this book. It could easily be my biography which normally I would say is a sad thing, but after reading this, I feel differently. The way Katie talks about herself is so relatable and easy. She's boosted my self esteem. Even in this day and age I get a lot of weird looks when I say I don't necessarily hang on to the notion of needing a boyfriend/significant other to be happy. I'm happy hanging with my awesome friends and doing things I like, and working. Katie is very comfortable in her independence and has made me more comfortable with myself.
Also recommend to anyone who needs a light book that will make you laugh out loud a LOT.
Also recommend to anyone who needs a light book that will make you laugh out loud a LOT.
I liked the beginning of this book more than the ending (many more laugh-out-loud moments, and the end tends to drag a bit), but overall an enjoyable read.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced