Choose Your Own Disaster

Posted on 15 February 2018 by Dana Schwartz

A hilarious, quirky, 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 Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internet s favorite method of self knowledge the quiz 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 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. Read Choose Your Own Disaster author Dana Schwartz – kino-fada.fr Personality Tests Modern FeminismIt s known by now that I m a fan of memoirs, given that I m easily swept up in the juicy secrets of someone s thoughts and secrets without having to reciprocate it s bliss for my nosy self With this new release part memoir, part VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial e...Not read this, but giving it a five star rating to balance out the one star rating by another bloke who hasn t read it Balance is maintained.Choose Your Own Disaster is 250 pages of sighing in relief that oh, thank God, I m not the only one who has that thought process I ve been a fan of Schwartz and her Guy In Your MFA account since my junior year of college I was in a fairly constant back and forth of wondering are we the same person and grumbling to myself in jealousy about how she was only a year older than me and so accomplished online like when I was eleven and thought I was destined to be a famous child actor if Dakota Choose Your Own Disaster is 250 pages of sighing in relief that oh, thank God, I m not the only one who has that thought process I ve been a fan of Schwartz and her Guy In Your MFA account since my junior year of college I was in a fairly constant back and forth of wondering are we the same person and grumbling to myself in jealousy about...The author is asking people on twitter to give this book 5 stars even though it s not out till next month That s the definition of lame Giving this one star and will readjust once I ve actually read the book EDIT I have now read the book and adjusted my rating.This book was tricky for me because I really do think Dana is a...Dana Schwartz examines her twenties with brutally honest humor using a parody style of the internet quiz She shares relatable stories about disordered eating, dating the wrong men, mediocre dates, and sexual assault Her self awareness, and ability to turn life s tra...FULL REVIEW TO COMEI feel like this book was tailor made for me probably because it s a choose your own adventure disaster book I ve gone through the eating disorders, the depression and loneliness, the anxiety, the insecurities, the mistakes with not good guys, and the overpowering guilt after Dana did a great job of bringing alllll those feelings back unfortunately Choose Your Own Disaster is really clever It gets real without being too much of a downer And, if you find yourself drawing some similaritie I feel like this book was tailor made for me probably because it s a choose your own adventure disaster book I ve gone through the eating disorders, the depression and loneliness, the anxiety, the insecurities, the mistakes with not good guys, and the overpowering guilt after Dana did a great job of bringing alllll those feelings back unfortunately Choose Your Own Disaster is really clever It gets real without being too much of a downer And, if you find yourself drawing some sim...I devoured this in one weekend Dana s voice sucks you in, her stories are alternately laugh out loud funny and smartly introspective, and you won t be able to put this one down I d recommend this to anyone who loves GIRLS, BuzzFeed quizzes, or Dana s Twitter.This book is fantastic because it is not only fun, but flawed and real Life is sometimes a series of disasters, but that is part of the learning process If we cannot learn through our mistakes we are doomed to repeat them, right Schwartz has created a book that is original and makes the reader feel like all the disasters in their past arenormal than not Sometimes is takes a few times to get it right and the twists and turns in the road of life and the ones that lead us to where we a This book i...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Dana Schwartz s book is mandatory summer reading for those who follow her on Twitter, and even those who don t Raw and engaging, it pulls you into her world that s darker than I ever imagined it d be Of course, it still is wonderfully clever with all of its cringes and laughs I just didn t expect tears You alternate between wanting to be her and wanting to give her a big hug with lots of encouragement to get her through the rest of her twenties and also to stop sleeping with married men A Dana Schwartz s book is mandatory summer reading for those who follow her on Twitter, and even those who don t Raw and engaging, it pulls you into her world...

15 February 2018

Dana Schwartz