Adulting isn’t a course you can take in college. Becoming an adult is a labour of time and failure. You’ve got to make stupid decisions and spend too long doing activities you don’t want to do in order to figure out the right choices and what you enjoy doing. I don’t know anything about Arden Rose and, to be honest, I wasn’t planning on reading this book. However, we do have this book on our bookshelf and I was craving a light and quick read to keep up with my reading challenge. I did not learn ANYTHING from this book. I’m only a year younger than Arden but I’m sure I could have written a better book. There was absolutely no golden thread running through it. She went from talking about how she met her boyfriend to a chapter about her trichotillomania and then she went back to her long-distance relationship. I mean… did it seem illogical to her to continue in a coherent manner? There’s an entire chapter dedicated to “decorating” in which she basically says “clean your house but don’t clean it too much”. Overall, the book was written in a really messy style and I just didn’t get the point of it.

3.5 stars. The beginning was good but the last two to three chapters had given of a different tone than the previous chapters and I didn't like the shifted tone as much as the beginning. Don't get me wrong it is important to talk about grief and lost and handling emotions but the messages conveyed here where not as impactful and unique (in a sense of not as often portrayed/ seen in other books).