While this was an interesting read during the first portion of the book, I lost interest during the second half and had to force myself to finish. I just didn't find the journey to be as engaging as I'd hoped.

I loved this book. I devoured it, I quoted from it on social media, and I just kept highlighting passage after passage. Devastated after the loss of her father, Natasha Scripture is prompted to reflect on her life and failed romantic relationships. She goes on a dating fast, she travels to an ashram, she works on a farm, takes a solo trek in Tanzania, and tells us about life as she explores both her inner and outer psyche. We read about her relationships with men, and one with a woman, but there is no labelling Scripture. A fine, witty, wonderful read. More than highly recommended.

For me, this was just an okay book. Even though I liked the self discovery and self love part of it, I felt the book dragged on a bit in the later half.

This wasn't a favorite book for me, but I finished it. I enjoyed the honesty of the author. The first half of the book was more captivating but I felt it fizzled out as we got to the half-way point.

Unfortunately this was a DNF for me. Although the author is a good writer I really was bored half way through. The spirituality she discovered and quest to figure out if she will ever marry and have kids is not unique, it felt like a magazine article stretched into a book repeating itself.

A quick read of self discovery and self care. You'll either love this one or you, like me, might be ambivalent (especially if you felt that way about Eat Pray Love). It's an easy going exploration of the world with some funny insights. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. A patio/beach book.

I really liked the first half of this book, about a grown woman who loves her parents but isn't sure what she wants to do with her life after having finally achieved what she set out to do: be an aid worker for the UN, and alleviate suffering or barring that at least alert the world to it. I like when she seems to fully own her faults, admitting that her her own selfishness, pride, and Seinfeld-esque pickiness have resulted in her singleness. I relate to her experiences as a multi-cultural CNN teleprompter operator, appreciate the many literary greats she selects quotes from (Victor Frankl, Dante, Eckhart Tolle, Simone de Beauvoir, Socrates, et al), and agree wholeheartedly that"the pressure of marriage that continues to dominate certain communities and affect women's choices and sense of self-worth" is a crock.

However, I got bogged down in the second half of the book with her obsession with J, and as the book seemed to switch from memoir to self help. I find the title a bit misleading because her Man Fast is neither fully adhered to nor the main focus here; and I think Natasha Scripture (and also JD Vance) are too young to write memoirs effectively. As she mentions new-age bullshit and self-help people being annoying as hell, I started to question her self-awareness a little.

Honest real open a spiritual journey funny wise thoughtful.A man fast no dating a search for self a search for your best self.A pleasure to read Natasha Scriptures memoir leaving me with a lot to think about. #netgalley #littlea