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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
Ok, so I didn't hate this. I found a lot of it relatable, but some parts just were blah. The audiobook narrator also put me to sleep...her voice was very monotone.
I started this book thinking I'd really enjoy it; I'd be able to relate to her journey since I was the token Single Girl all throughout high school & college. Then I began to feel embarrassed for her, because no one in real life is that dramatic, right? I mean, for someone that wants to be in a relationship so badly, why does she say no all the time? Why does she constantly get in her own way? There's a line between being endearingly self-deprecating and being obnoxious. She crossed over about 120ish pages in.
This book made me laugh out loud; several parts of the book sounded like she was writing about my own boy experiences, which made it even funnier. I like that she can find the humor in her situations and doesn't think any less of herself for not having found a boyfriend or husband yet. Makes me feel less alone in the world as I'm in a similar place in my life :)
This book felt like a teenage girl rambling at your for hours about her dating life, or lack there of. I wanted to be sympathetic, but at the same time I started getting annoyed. I did appreciate the end when she reiterated that she wasn't a Lighthouse and she would continue to be herself over having a significant other.
Change her from a tall thin Catholic to a short chubby Jew and this could have been written entirely by me. It was like she stole my journal and published it - from the middle school friends to the high school dances to college to online dating. I am married now but this book stops when she was 25 which is about a year before I met my husband. I would have loved to read this in college, it would have made me feel less alone.
I wanted to hate this book. I really did. She is just so honest about every thought she has and unabashedly talks about how terrible she was at dating. However, as much as I hate to admit it, I think I was more annoyed with how much it hit close to home. When it came to dating, I too, was a huge scaredy cat and practiced a kind of unintentional, delusional self-sabotage. I did like how she very eloquently talks about how very happy she is with being single. Her humor didn't really make me laugh out loud, but when the kids were listening along - they were constantly laughing. Maybe the writing style? I'm not sure, but for me it got very long in parts.
I started out completely in love with this book and with Katie, because I think everyone can relate to awkward adolescent experiences with boys and because I really loved her sense of humor and tone. But after a while I felt she was trying too hard.
I really related to and liked some chapters of this book. I have put little pencil notes in my copy to indicate this. Because it’s hard to get older and still be single while you watch other people stop being single. And to kind of feel less and less connected to the people in your life who move on, even if some of them are people you think are always going to get the way you see the world. But saying that, I don’t know if there’s really enough content here for it to be a whole book. Because I kept reading with a sense of something is going to happen (because you see, we’re always conditioned to think something is going to happen) and it was hard to get through so many stories that were all false starts. Maybe because it hit too close to home? Hard to say.
I am actually not going to finish this book. It is not that the story is bad or anything it is just not my cup of tea. I just can't get into it and I don't like forcing myself to read something that I am not required to read. So sadly I am going to have to just drop this one.
I think I need to stop reading memoirs, they just make me angry. First off the title is a lie. She talks about going on a date in the book. Yes I'm being nit-picky, but come on. The book really doesn't have much to say at all. Okay, you are 25 and haven't had a boyfriend and are still a virgin....what else? I don't think being single is enough reason to get a book deal, have something to say about it. She's writing a memoir that seems equal to my high school diary. She goes on and on about obsessive crushes even after graduating college. It just seems like she's just not mature enough for a relationship.
I randomly picked this book up because it was on a end cap at the library thinking it would be a fun read. I just wish it had more to say about anything.
I randomly picked this book up because it was on a end cap at the library thinking it would be a fun read. I just wish it had more to say about anything.