
How to Be Alone
If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
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Lane Moore
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Lane Moore
About this listen
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.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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1000 thanks to Lane
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This book is actually a magic potion
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A biography not self-help
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Perfect.
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could not finish
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A must read/ listen one
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Incredible
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I needed this
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Heartbreakingly beautiful
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