Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over
Cathy Alter
3 out of 5
What is more annoying than a twenty-five year old who is trying to find her self? That would a forty year old who thinks and acts like she’s twenty-five and wonders why her life is spinning out of control.
What seems like a semi-autobiographical peek into the insecurities of a big city girl, Alter shares her life. A divorce, bad relationships and overall bad choices lead her to wonder if the large display of shinny flashy women’s magazines know something that she doesn’t. So she plans to live the life that the magazines tell her to for one year and see what happens. Each month she picks a new topic and decides to work on it. And coincidentally, that month the magazines address her specific issues. Funny how that worked out.
I don’t know if I got used to her antics and anxieties, but by the end of the book I was actually laughing along with her. I wouldn’t recommend this to everyone, or even most, but if you have any tolerance for women that are slow to grow up and overly anxious about the world in general give it a try. Other wise, just know that magazines are designed to entertain and make you insecure and if you’re wise enough you don’t live your life according to what other anxiety ridden writers tell you is important .
Amazon Review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1Q3AOJI1L9IR8/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
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