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Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date
by Katie Heaney
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).