Meghan's Reviews > Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
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What did I gain from this book?
I am not entirely sure, honestly. It was a quick read for sure, and it is nice to know that women relationships evolve over the years. I was kind of expecting more of a historical layout of women friendships (like when she discusses the Victorian era — that's really cool!) but it is peppered in with stories of her own female friendships, and maybe would have been better as a memoir?
It isn't a bad book, it just doesn't feel like it was worth the wait of the library hold. I loved the discussion of how your partner shouldn't be your best friend, but this book also feels like it primarily focuses on the female friendships of heterosexual women — to the point that occasionally I was like "yeah if I started feeling this way about my friends — any of them, I do start to wonder if I have romantic feelings for them." Which... I guess is part of a societal problem? I don't know. I love my best friends — both my female and male besties — for different and similar reasons. They are both two of the most important people in the world to me. And I have wondered the past few years if "soul mate" has to equal "romantic mate."
In part, this book is a feel-good reminder of why we should embrace our sex and remember that we aren't bitchy terrible people like media sometimes wants us to believe. But another part of me truly feels like this was written to justify the author's singledom to the world. As someone who is fairly certain she will never marry, I don't mean this in a bad way. I like knowing there are other women very happy in their in independent ways, as I am most of the time. But I also....don't fill the void with friendships either. I don't know.
Likes:
The discussion that partners shouldn't be your best friend
Women should be supportive and women are awesome
I am not entirely sure, honestly. It was a quick read for sure, and it is nice to know that women relationships evolve over the years. I was kind of expecting more of a historical layout of women friendships (like when she discusses the Victorian era — that's really cool!) but it is peppered in with stories of her own female friendships, and maybe would have been better as a memoir?
It isn't a bad book, it just doesn't feel like it was worth the wait of the library hold. I loved the discussion of how your partner shouldn't be your best friend, but this book also feels like it primarily focuses on the female friendships of heterosexual women — to the point that occasionally I was like "yeah if I started feeling this way about my friends — any of them, I do start to wonder if I have romantic feelings for them." Which... I guess is part of a societal problem? I don't know. I love my best friends — both my female and male besties — for different and similar reasons. They are both two of the most important people in the world to me. And I have wondered the past few years if "soul mate" has to equal "romantic mate."
In part, this book is a feel-good reminder of why we should embrace our sex and remember that we aren't bitchy terrible people like media sometimes wants us to believe. But another part of me truly feels like this was written to justify the author's singledom to the world. As someone who is fairly certain she will never marry, I don't mean this in a bad way. I like knowing there are other women very happy in their in independent ways, as I am most of the time. But I also....don't fill the void with friendships either. I don't know.
Likes:
The discussion that partners shouldn't be your best friend
Women should be supportive and women are awesome
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Reading Progress
June 28, 2018
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June 28, 2018
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June 29, 2018
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44.0%
July 1, 2018
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read-2018
July 1, 2018
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