Unwifeable - Rambling Readers

audio cd, 1 pages

Published April 3, 2018 by Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio, Simon & Schuster Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-5082-6437-8

(1 review)

"From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor and brilliant wit. My story is not standalone. Single girl comes to New York; New York eats her alive. But what does stand out is my discovery that you can essentially live a life that appears to be a textbook manual for everything one can do wrong to find love--and still find Mr. Right. Mandy Stadtmiller came to Manhattan in 2005, newly divorced, thirty years old, with a job at the New York Post, ready to conquer the city and the industry in one fell swoop. Like a "real-life Carrie Bradshaw" (so called by Jenny McCarthy!), she proceeded to chronicle her fearless attempts for nearly a decade in the Post, New York magazine, …

"From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor and brilliant wit. My story is not standalone. Single girl comes to New York; New York eats her alive. But what does stand out is my discovery that you can essentially live a life that appears to be a textbook manual for everything one can do wrong to find love--and still find Mr. Right. Mandy Stadtmiller came to Manhattan in 2005, newly divorced, thirty years old, with a job at the New York Post, ready to conquer the city and the industry in one fell swoop. Like a "real-life Carrie Bradshaw" (so called by Jenny McCarthy!), she proceeded to chronicle her fearless attempts for nearly a decade in the Post, New York magazine, and xoJane. But there was a darker side to the glitz and glamor threatening to surface. After countless failed romances and too many blackout nights, she gave up on love and came to terms with who she was: broken, hurting, and angry. So she got sober and regained control of her life. And on the very last day of her thirties, she got engaged on the steps of Times Square to a man who spoke red flag fluently who couldn't wait to make her his wife. Finally falling in love and getting married didn't magically somehow fix her--but it did represent a metamorphosis of spirit. Unwifeable is a New York fairytale brought to life--Sex and the City on acid. With hysterical insight, unabashed sexuality, and unprecedented levels of raw, honest pain, Unwifeable is a book that you can't help but respond and relate to--perfect for fans of Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler, and Sarah Hepola"--

4 editions

crabbygirl reviewed Unwifeable by Mandy Stadtmiller

Review of 'Unwifeable' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

what a train wreck. it's the right title because this girl is a drugs, alcohol & sex addict. she goes to sex parties; she has at least 8 recorded threesomes in the book, she posts on craiglist looking for a F* buddy NOW (and gets a hundred replies), she has sex with strangers that turn into rape but could also have turned into murder. she documents every slut move in her on-line columns at the NY post and wonders why she is considered unwifeable

half way thru, after a phone call with her father that upsets her, he send her an email where he sees her – really sees her – by apologizing for continually hurting her by NOT reading her column and acknowledging her pain of being told she's loved, but not getting the validation of that love (by keeping up with her column) and she can only react …

what a train wreck. it's the right title because this girl is a drugs, alcohol & sex addict. she goes to sex parties; she has at least 8 recorded threesomes in the book, she posts on craiglist looking for a F* buddy NOW (and gets a hundred replies), she has sex with strangers that turn into rape but could also have turned into murder. she documents every slut move in her on-line columns at the NY post and wonders why she is considered unwifeable

half way thru, after a phone call with her father that upsets her, he send her an email where he sees her – really sees her – by apologizing for continually hurting her by NOT reading her column and acknowledging her pain of being told she's loved, but not getting the validation of that love (by keeping up with her column) and she can only react to the email like it was punch in the gut. instead of seeing how her dad has full empathy for her feelings (and really, can you FORCE someone keep reading their daughter's sexual exploits? if you want to live your own life, aren't the rest of the people in your life owed the same agency?)

she uses her relationships, romantic and family, as fodder for the public. she accepts the loving embrace of her family after almost self-destructing in the thirties and then rages at the same family when she returns to the toxic New York life, complete with the return of her personal-essays that push these innocence bystander / family into the new unwitting stars of her column. when her mother tries explain how hurtful it is by mentioning she might leave a negative comment on Facebook to see what it feels like - Mandy blocks her own mother on FB! (and then her sister too. she's all kinds of self righteous)

of course, the final chapter has to be about how she DID get married and how all this crap and trauma led to this one great thing and how she's a changed woman. hmm I think, let's check back in another 5 years.
(and yes you might wonder why I didn't rate it one star; suffice it to say that I'm newly aware that authors get their feelings hurt on this site and hope a middling rating will be uninteresting enough to NOT read the review. but if you do read this, sorry Mandy)