Glynnis MacNicol
Author of No One Tells You This: A Memoir
About the Author
Image credit: author photo | Copyright © Naima Green
Works by Glynnis MacNicol
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris (2024) 118 copies, 2 reviews
Associated Works
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women (2020) — Contributor — 82 copies, 2 reviews
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- MacNicol, Glynnis
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- author
- Short biography
- Glynnis MacNicol is a writer and cofounder of The Li.st. Her work has appeared in print and online for publications including Elle.com (where she was a contributing writer), The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, The Cut, Daily News (New York), W, Town & Country, The Daily Beast, mental_floss, and Capital New York. Her series of articles on the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn for Chase’s award-winning “From the Ground Up” package won a 2015 Contently Award. She is the author of the memoir No One Tells You This and the coauthor of There Will Be Blood, a guide to puberty, with HelloFlo founder Naama Bloom. She lives in New York City.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Associated Place (for map)
- Canada
Members
Reviews
I'm really not sure how I feel about this one. There are some passages where the author articulates some of my feelings or experiences right on, better than any explanations I've read or thought myself. But if I'm looking for assurance about my own life, this is not it. MacNicol's experiences as a single person are not my own. She's got a significant and intense network of very close friends and allies, she's living her dream in New York and jetsetting on some pretty amazing adventures. So show more while I relate to her acknowledgement of happily living an alternate life that women are not brought up to imagine as an option (ie, being satisfied as a single and not a failure simply because she is not married and/or have kids), I can't connect to her on many other levels. This story is as much about a woman dealing with her mother's decline of Parkinson's and dementia as much as accepting singlehood, about embracing the freedom to have adventures as much as accepting the children in her life belong to her friends and sister. This is not the book I thought it was going to be, or needed. show less
I was able to get this as an audiobook, and the narrator has a fantastic voice, which really fits with the character. However, the content of the book is not interesting and highly disorganized. It seems as if this woman went away impulsively to Paris based on some sort of message on a dating app from a man whose face she hasn’t ever seen. I said to myself, who would go to Paris for a man with no profile picture? I hope he doesn’t look like Wallace Sean not that there’s anything wrong show more with that.
It’s not clear if she ever meets up with this man because she immediately gets on more dating apps, including a French dating app called Fruits. There’s no linear plot or story to keep me interested. The book wants to be some sort of empowerment for middle-aged unmarried women. I feel like I’m being lectured how it’s OK not to be married, it's OK not to have kids, and it’s OK to just do whatever you want. Furthermore, the profile icon of a nude woman from a famous Baroque painter is kind of nauseating to look at after a while with this audiobook. It is obviously not a representation of the author.
The book is disjointed and like it was dictated stream of consciousness and never edited or organized. Each chapter does not follow the subject of the title and touches many random thoughts and musings about life, money, sex, work etc.. Some of them feel painful and cringe. The optimistic tone of the book alternates with neurotic fears, insecurities and second guessing. Is she really as happy as she says she is in the book? show less
It’s not clear if she ever meets up with this man because she immediately gets on more dating apps, including a French dating app called Fruits. There’s no linear plot or story to keep me interested. The book wants to be some sort of empowerment for middle-aged unmarried women. I feel like I’m being lectured how it’s OK not to be married, it's OK not to have kids, and it’s OK to just do whatever you want. Furthermore, the profile icon of a nude woman from a famous Baroque painter is kind of nauseating to look at after a while with this audiobook. It is obviously not a representation of the author.
The book is disjointed and like it was dictated stream of consciousness and never edited or organized. Each chapter does not follow the subject of the title and touches many random thoughts and musings about life, money, sex, work etc.. Some of them feel painful and cringe. The optimistic tone of the book alternates with neurotic fears, insecurities and second guessing. Is she really as happy as she says she is in the book? show less
Some nice reflections on being 40 and single, living a life with no prebuilt instructions or expectations. It's particularly fascinating how friends of hers that were married and/or had kids frequently told her they were jealous of her. People think marriage/kids/careers will fix something in them, or will create a great future somewhere down the road. But ultimately, we only and always live in the present.
On the other hand with this book, the author is a transplant New Yorker who believes show more it is the center of the world, and it felt a little condescending. show less
On the other hand with this book, the author is a transplant New Yorker who believes show more it is the center of the world, and it felt a little condescending. show less
Okay I think I need to give up on reading books by single women as apparently I’m an alien to the group as a whole. Are there any that just live and do their thing and don’t live in a huge city and live it up and date all the time until they feel it’s finally okay to say they’re fine with being alone? I should be the most empathetic reader here yet only felt for the author’s ordeal with her mother’s disease and early death.
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 4
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 332
- Popularity
- #71,552
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 8
- ISBNs
- 21