How to be Alone : : if you Want to, and Even if you Don't

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Family & Relationships / General / Moore, Lane
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Emergency contact left blank -- Please just be a good person so I can finally be someone who has friends -- Maybe someone else will love me and that will fix everything -- Now you get to be an adult, even though you were always an adult. Good luck! -- I've always relied on the kindness of strangers, but, like, in a sad way -- I liked dating you better in my head -- What if this is as good as it will ever get : settling and you! -- So your family dictates your romantic future? What a fun punishment! -- Babies babysitting babies -- Just a few notes for our new babysitter! -- Am I the last hopeless romantic on Earth? -- TV couples who made me believe love is supposed to be better than this -- Happy holidays to everyone but you, you lonely weirdo -- All this pain must be worth it because you're supposed to be my soul mate -- How to be alone.
"Lane Moore is a fool for love. From her addiction to romantic comedies to her tendency to form instant soulmate connections with strangers, Lane has a way of romanticizing everything and everyone. But her romantic nature belies a decidedly unromantic childhood, one that sent her down a long and difficult road. Lane considers herself an orphan, though she has two living parents. Her estrangement from her family was a catalyst for her to build a new one with a community of friends, comedians, and oddball roommates in Los Angeles and then New York City. With an intoxicating blend of dark wit and relentless positivity, Lane sheds light on an often-stigmatized condition and reveals how she harnessed and drew strength from her loneliness to become the creative powerhouse she is today."--Provided by publisher.

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Misleading Title, Mediocre Book submitted by purplewaves on June 16, 2019, 11:37pm First off: the title and advertising campaign suggest that this book may actually help someone cope with being alone. It does not. There is some perfunctory advice plopped randomly into a chapter toward the end, but it's nothing you haven't heard before if you struggle with coping strategies and browse the internet.

The book is complicated. It's a heartbreaking (though vague) memoir about growing up neglected and yet somehow becoming suspiciously famous and popular all one's own, supposedly without any connections. Overall, the author is too young and too inexperienced to reflect on her difficult life with any sort of insight that could concretely help others. If you need someone to affirm that yes, people have hard lives (which you can get on almost any personal blog), then this may be for you. Otherwise, it's a decently written book with a meandering structure and misleading title. If the author hadn't already attained into internet fame, this wouldn't be a book.

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