A review by jencameron
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir by Kristin Newman

3.0

“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.