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How to Be Alone

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How to Be Alone

By: Lane Moore
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The former sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first audiobook.

Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage - whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance - as she is on the page, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles, including being her own parent, living in her car as a teenager, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all, she looked to movies, TV, and music as the family and support systems she never had.

From spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on Earth, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor, anxiety, and ultimate acceptance - with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift.

How to Be Alone is a must-listen for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all, it’s an audiobook for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through listening to her words.

©2018 Lane Moore. All rights reserved. (P)2018 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Granted, maybe I should have looked into this book a little more before buying it on a whim. However, I bought it based on the title, and subtitle, during a moment of feeling genuinely guilty about spending time alone, but unmotivated to really do anything different - and the book honestly does not even start to touch on that until the last chapter, where suddenly, finally it launches into an extremely rushed feeling conclusion which can be summarised as, being alone is OK and you probably won't be alone forever anyway. Well, damn, could not have guessed that.

I don't doubt the good intentions of the author or the validity of this message but there simply isn't time to actually get into these ideas in anything beyond surface level detail.

The rest of the book is a biography which was not uninteresting, honestly I wanted to give this book only 2 stars but on the basis that the author seems like a genuine person who has had a hard start in life, and that perhaps I should have noticed it was a biography and not the self help book that, IMO, it does kind of present itself as, I couldn't bring myself to give less than 3 but IMO, again, 3 stars is kind of generous.

That said - for most of the author's life, she clearly was not happy with being alone and the final chapter's realisations and positive uptick again seem like a very recent, underdeveloped aspect of the story. It's hard for me not to be a little cynical about the fact that one of the final points seems to be "get a dog, so that you feel less alone", but maybe that's a good idea, I mean, there are a lot of abandoned dogs in the world (obviously adopt a dog - don't buy one, you savages, and I say this unsarcastically). Overall though I was pretty disappointed, just was not what I was expecting.

Misleading Title

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Highly recommended to everyone who had to raise themselves. Damn, we did a great job!

1000 thanks to Lane

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And with this magic potion you will never feel alone ever again, I promise. Lane really knows what she's talking about.

This book is actually a magic potion

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I was expecting this to be a self-help book and it’s not, but although it turned out to be a biography it was a very compelling and relatable one.

A biography not self-help

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She will make you fall in love with her. She even sings for you. Lovely.

Perfect.

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I really tried to stick at it with this book, but I couldn't! I found it really hard to get into and my attention wandered very quickly.

could not finish

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A must read to all the introvert, anxious and "freak" out there. Like me ♡

A must read/ listen one

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This is one of those books that takes you on a rollercoaster of emotion. I was flipped and spun and twisted between heartbreak, hysteria, laughing awkwardly out loud in public, sobbing uncontrollably and contentment. Sadly for many this book will be completely relatable and will sweep you off your feet, potentially catapulting you back into hard past times whilst simultaneously soothing your inner child and helping them understand that actually you are ok and it will be ok. This was a wonderful book to listen to and I’m so glad I found Lane as an author, comedian and a person, I have never felt so connected to a stranger, brought together by familiar atrocities, experiences and dilemmas all too often seen by young people all over the world. Fantastic,

Incredible

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Absolutely love this book! Helping met get through life right now, just what I needed! <3

I needed this

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A heartbreaking autobiography of the reality of loneliness. Beautifully written and read. Inspiring and positive.

Heartbreakingly beautiful

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