Further, the book uses the Choose Your Own Adventure format in a way that is both funny and emotionally affecting. I purchased this book because I am a fan of Dana Schwartz's Twitter accounts, the one under her own name and her brilliant and Her comic voice makes it to the pages of Choose Your Own Disaster absolutely intact. It is a perfect summer beach read! Think this is code for "guilty pleasure". Brutally honest (probably an issue that I was jealous of her anorexia- prefer to chew and spit) but always entertaining (smirked once every two pages, giggled once every five pages and laughed out loud once every twelve pages). It is just a super fun read and you should feel zero guilt for enjoying it. In all seriousness, I agree with the writer's viewpoint that the book shouldn't be described as a guilty pleasure. As a thirteen year old I made my choice in life and started looking into guide dogs for the blind and listening to audio books (somehow knew I would be too lazy to learn braille). Unfortunately this also coincided with my eyes rapidly diminishing to the point where I needed glasses. At school, an evil rumor was whispered that masturbation made you go blind. With every passing page the Catholic guilt, built deep within me, welled up and made me hate myself for enjoying this book so much. This was the guiltiest pleasure book I have ever read. Reviewed in the United States on 17 January 2019 And she highlighted such incredible moments, situations and feelings. She made me feel so less alone while reading this. She nailed my experiences with eating disorder, depression and the inability to have a big ol' O. I know there are so many incredible writers out there, but Dana is truly such a special one. Everything about this book just reeled me in. I pressed my finger down on certain pages and exclaimed, "this!" as my husband would look over me, unphased and slightly confused. How do I even go about making a complete sentence that describes how incredible this book is? There were so many moments where I had to put the book down and think to myself, "WAIT, IS THIS ME? DID I WRITE THIS? AM I ACTUALLY DANA?" I laughed. This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī"hilarious and heartbreaking" (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping-and sometimes failing-to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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