A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
by Lena Dunham
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“So happy this Christmas night, finishing @lenadunham's book. Love it all, but this line brought me fits of laughter”
Source →Recommended by 3 notable people, including Meghan Markle and Audrey Gelman
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Not That Kind of Girl is a collection of frank, often funny personal essays delivered in a breathy, conversational voice: short scenes, blunt sexual anecdotes, and chatty cultural asides. Its useful part is liveliness of voice and the way small humiliations are made vivid and oddly relatable. Its limitation is repetition and occasional self-regard, which can make later chapters feel like extended riffs rather than tightened pieces with new insight. Best consumed in short sittings; not a source of practical takeaways or structured guidance.
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"There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told," writes Lena Dunham, and it certainly takes guts to share the stories that make up her first book, Not That Kind of Girl. These are stories about getting your butt touched by your boss, about friendship and dieting (kind of) and having two exi...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Humor, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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Audrey Gelman
American political consultant
“So happy this Christmas night, finishing @lenadunham's book. Love it all, but this line brought me fits of laughter”
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