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Publisher's Summary
If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?
This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her 40th birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen as objects of pity, relegated to the sidelines, or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves.
Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those roles and yet the question remained: What now? There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world. She concluded it was time to create one.
Over the course of her 40th year, which this memoir chronicles, Glynnis embarks on a revealing journey of self-discovery that continually contradicts everything she’d been led to expect. Through the trials of family illness and turmoil, and the thrills of far-flung travel and adventures with men, young and old (and sometimes wearing cowboy hats), she is forced to wrestle with her biggest hopes and fears about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness. In doing so, she discovers that holding the power to determine her own fate requires a resilience and courage that no one talks about, and is more rewarding than anyone imagines.
Intimate and timely, No One Tells You This is a fearless reckoning with modern womanhood and an exhilarating adventure that will resonate with anyone determined to live by their own rules.
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- Emily
- 07-13-18
Disappointing
As a single person who lost her mother st a young age, I was really excited for this book, but found the writing uneven and the telling largely a story of intense privilege. This feels a little like lifestyle porn.
8 people found this helpful
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- Cris
- 07-13-18
Not quite what I expected.
There is a lot I liked about this book. MacNicol really reveals a lot about her thoughts/worries about things we all struggle with but don’t often discuss. I really appreciated some of the personal moments that she shared.
However, there are also a lot of times that the book would lose my attention. I sometimes had a hard time following the order of events as the book isn’t quite chronological. Also, there are times when she would go into great detail about things and I don’t quite know why. It feels like there is a lot of filler, but maybe I just missed the bigger picture.
Overall, I found it interesting. It is a good story about a woman figuring out what she really wants in life. I’m just not convinced that she has it all worked out yet. I’d like to hear an update later in her life.
I should also add that the narration was great. The whole audiobook was delivered like a casual conversation with just the right emotional inflection.
7 people found this helpful
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- Elisa
- 07-21-18
Life should not be lived in Someone Else's Shoes..
Thank you, Glynnis, for sharing your story with us. It was a page turner (albeit, I was listening via Audible). Allyson Ryan did a great job narrating your words -- effortlessly taking on the many voices in your story. I'm totally into memoirs at the moment and appreciate the way you have an ease in your narrative, a sense of humor and have realized that other peoples life choices are not necessarily a healthy metric to compare your self worth to. Entering your 40's is definitely a liberating time. Each decade brings it's own Trickster Shadow side. BTW -- I didn't have children and I'm just fine about that. I was married for 25 years and widowed 8 years ago when my husband was only 58. The journeys of each person carry with them the weight of the world -- as well as the freedom to forge new ways of being that work best for them. Thank you for your willingness to explore yourself and I hope you continue to pat yourself on the back for coming to the conclusion that you are a Badass and taking no prisoners! Your 40's inspire that -- although you seemed to have come to that conclusion on your own way before that! Congratulating You for being Fierce, Feisty and Fabulous!
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- Brian Smith
- 08-25-18
Long on Details, Short on Insight
I read this book for both personal interest as someone choosing not to have children and left wanting more. Glynnis' prose leaves much to be desired and the story is mediocre at best. This feels more like a desperate attempt to convince herself that she is making the right life choices rather than a true exploration of this highly existential topic. The saving grace of this book is the insight it provided me, a male listener, into the world of women who wrestle with this decision. An important topic, no doubt, but I wish the torch bearer of this subject was willing to go deeper.
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- J. G.
- 08-02-18
Disappointing and self-indulgent
While I understand that this is a memoir, unfortunately I found it rambling and navel-gazing. I didn’t find it particularly insightful. The narrator, however, is good and has a range. I hung on until the end since I was listening to this on a road trip but it just never delivered anything useful or compelling. Save your money or credit.
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- Chicago_Girl
- 08-05-19
boring and masterbatory
this is not about a woman turning 40 - this is about a woman who is super super privileged who's the product of her own misery and needed to hear the sound of her own voice out in the public world. it's boring, it's unoriginal. I don't know anybody that can relate to this story.
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- Katrina Cosgrove
- 03-15-22
Exactly what I needed
I loved this. The narrator was great and helped keep me engaged but I never really found myself wanting to stop listening. A wonderful read for those struggling with "big" birthdays or choosing the single life. I appreciate her take and eloquence on a lot of things that are usually hard to put into words. 10/10.
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- mari
- 03-15-19
loved this book!
this story inspired and reassures me about my own path. it made me hopeful for my future. a little less sacred to carry on to the untraditinal life path ı have chossen. To not be so judgmental of those who have chosen the "traditional lifestyle " I didn't want the book to end.
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- Tracy
- 09-22-18
Slow, thoughtful, and exactly what I needed
Glynnis tells stories from her life that slowly open up to reveal beautiful perspectives that I found helpful in my own life. It’s comforting to hear someone else have a similar (but much more eloquently expressed) inner dialogue about what it means to lose your mother, not have a husband, and not have kids while turning 40. These are topics a lot of women deal with but don’t talk about. I recommend it for anyone thinking through those things too.
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- Dee Bee
- 11-14-19
Too tame
I hung in there too the end, waiting for something interesting and insightful to happen. It didn't.
1 person found this helpful
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Thanks for Waiting
- The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
- By: Doree Shafrir
- Narrated by: Doree Shafrir
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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In her debut memoir, Doree Shafrir explores the enormous pressures we feel, especially as women, to hit certain milestones at certain times and how we can redefine what it means to be a late bloomer. She writes about everything from dating to infertility, to how friendships evolve as you get older, to why being pregnant at 41 is unexpectedly freeing - all with the goal of appreciating the lives we've lived so far and the lives we still hope to live.
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Terrible
- By Masha N on 07-31-21
By: Doree Shafrir
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Everything Is Fine
- A Memoir
- By: Vince Granata
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received the news that would change his life - his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home.
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Brutal and Beautiful
- By 3dogknits on 07-14-21
By: Vince Granata
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The Ugly Cry
- A Memoir
- By: Danielle Henderson
- Narrated by: Danielle Henderson
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Abandoned at 10 years old by a mother who chose her drug-addicted, abusive boyfriend, Danielle was raised by grandparents who thought their child-rearing days had ended in the 1960s. She grew up Black, weird, and overwhelmingly uncool in a mostly white neighborhood in upstate New York, which created its own identity crises.
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Both Funny & Heart Wrenching in the Perfect Ratio.
- By Lauren Fisher on 06-30-21
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Open Mic Night in Moscow
- And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men
- By: Audrey Murray
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.
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Just booked my Trans-Siberian ticket!
- By Brenna on 07-28-20
By: Audrey Murray
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
- Locating Happily-Single Serenity
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Society, films, song lyrics and our parents are adamant that a happy ending has to be couple-shaped. Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution, explored the bizarre ways cultures single-shame, detached from 'all the good ones are gone!' panic and debunked the myth that married people are much happier.
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Empowering and disappointing
- By Tracy on 01-17-20
By: Catherine Gray
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Spinster
- Making a Life of One's Own
- By: Kate Bolick
- Narrated by: Kate Bolick
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she - along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing - remains unmarried.
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Not what I expected.
- By Anita on 04-23-15
By: Kate Bolick
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Golden State
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- Narrated by: Käthe Mazur
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Dr. Julie Walker wakes on a summer morning in San Francisco to find a city in chaos. Today Californians are voting on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. With the future of the state and the nation uncertain, the streets have erupted into violence. Injured, Julie must make her way across the city by foot to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister, recently returned from Afghanistan, is in labor. At the hospital a brutal scene is unfolding as a man who shares an intimate past with Julie begins to take his revenge.
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The Longest Way Home
- One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down
- By: Andrew McCarthy
- Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Unable to commit to his fiancée of nearly four years - and with no clear understanding of what’s holding him back - Andrew McCarthy finds himself at a crossroads, plagued by doubts that have clung to him for a lifetime. Something in his character has kept him always at a distance, preventing him from giving himself wholeheartedly to the woman he loves and from becoming the father that he knows his children deserve. So before he loses everything he cares about, Andrew sets out to look for answers.
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boring
- By Anonymous User on 06-06-13
By: Andrew McCarthy
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All over the Place
- Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
- By: Geraldine DeRuiter
- Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets, and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos. Geraldine DeRuiter is the latter. But she won't let that stop her. Hilarious, irreverent, and heartfelt, All over the Place chronicles the years Geraldine spent traveling the world after getting laid off from a job she loved.
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Couldn't finish - story of a dependant/whiny woman
- By Chelsey on 05-25-20
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Nightwatcher
- By: Wendy Corsi Staub
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Nightwatcher, the first in a riveting new series, takes place in the days immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A serial killer is loose in New York City, and Allison Taylor may be the only one who can identify him. She doesn’t know the killer has now set his sights on her—and unless she acts fast, she’ll be his next victim.
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- By barbara on 06-07-13
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Chosen Forever
- By: Susan Richards
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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When Susan Richards adopted an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA, she didn't know that the memoir she would write about the experience would become a best seller - or that she would fall in love.
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Ugh!!!
- By Dr. Bill on 03-11-10
By: Susan Richards
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Rock Needs River
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- By: Vanessa McGrady
- Narrated by: Vanessa McGrady
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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After two years of waiting to adopt - slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair - a miracle finally happened for Vanessa McGrady. Her sweet baby, Grace, was a dream come true. Then Vanessa made a highly uncommon gesture: when Grace’s biological parents became homeless, Vanessa invited them to stay. Without a blueprint for navigating the practical basics of an open adoption or any discussion of expectations or boundaries, the unusual living arrangement became a bottomless well of conflicting emotions and increasingly difficult decisions.
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A story of Self Absorption
- By dusti on 02-26-19
By: Vanessa McGrady
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Golden State
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- By: Michelle Richmond
- Narrated by: Käthe Mazur
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Dr. Julie Walker wakes on a summer morning in San Francisco to find a city in chaos. Today Californians are voting on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. With the future of the state and the nation uncertain, the streets have erupted into violence. Injured, Julie must make her way across the city by foot to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister, recently returned from Afghanistan, is in labor. At the hospital a brutal scene is unfolding as a man who shares an intimate past with Julie begins to take his revenge.