The Post About The Lena Dunham Book I finished 5 Minutes Ago.

I just finished Lena Dunham's book "Not That Kind Of Girl" and I thought it was wonderful. Here is a girl who used to do weird stuff as a kid and who thinks about dying on a regular basis. I feel like I know her. And honestly amidst on the sexual mishap stories (which I'm sure all of us have plenty of) and the feminist discovery of oneself (which is awesome) those are really the two things that I related to, doing really weird shit as an adolescent and thinking about death at inappropriate times. It's one of those things that hits you out of no where and leaves me with a cold sweat and a deep unshakeable dread. I had no idea that other people feel it in the same way I do.

Her book made me think of the incredibly odd things I used to do when I was a little kid.

I consider myself a collector of spunky funny female memoirs. I have a sickness. I can't stop myself from buying them. Whether it's the obscure writer of Community's memoir about how her boyfriend wrote a book about her or Miley Cyrus' riveting saga of life up to fifteen or Diane Keaton's book about her mother. I am obsessed with reading about other women. But I want them to be strong and self confident but also not self confident. The kind of woman that appear to have it together and kind of do but also really don't. Because that is who I see myself as. I eat it up. And Lena's book did not disappoint.

There were so many phrases that struck home with me that I am going to have to re-read it in the future but with sticky notes to capture all the amazing ways she turned my feelings into words.

My favorite line by far was number Fifteen on her list of "Fifteen Things my Mother Taught Me":

15. Family First. Work Second. Revenge Third.

Also for some inexplicable reason I am completely enamored with the fact that she wrote about her nine year old neighbor's newsletter. It oddly reminded me of a philosophy book called "The Elegance of a Hedgehog" which is one of my favorite books and if you haven't read it what are you waiting for?  Those few passages made me giddy and I can't really explain why. I can say I adored this book it was everything you would expect from Lena Dunham and I mean that as a huge compliment.