Stephanie Dolgoff

I won this book in the Library Thing Giveaway several months ago and I started reading it the day after I received it. I am just now posting my review and I'm only on page 73. It's taken me that long to try and finish this book. I'm finally throwing in the towel and pronouncing my efforts to complete it over. There seems to be a new crop of authors who think that turning their blog into a book is a good idea. Not so. I've yet to find one that holds my attention past the halfway mark. This book is no exception. Also, I didn't find the premise all that intersting in the execution. My woman complains about EVERYTHING and ties it back to how she is aging and used to be hot. My overall reaction to the book was an underwhelming myeh.… (meer)

I'm you are no longer young but not quite middle aged, this is a book for you. Based on Dolgoff's blog, she termed the phrase "formerly hot" for women just beginning to deal with aging and the myriad of problems/challenges that come with it. And, this book is not just about beauty but careers, having children later in life, finally finding one partner, etc. Though I am not in the target audience for this book, I appreciated the insight into what a woman may eventually experience as she gets older. Having learned this information, I feel that I may be better able to handle it? And that, for a twenty-something was worth the time it took to read the book!… (meer)