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Everyone has that birthday. That one day we look in the mirror and ask ourselves: ""How did I get here? Is this really the person I intended to be when I grew up? Am I grown up?"" ​Here is one woman's exploration of personal and social failures and the hilarity that ensues. Katharine presents her own self-assessment in the form of this best-selling micro-memoir 30 Failures By Age 30. Through each of the 30 chapters, Katharine takes on her experiences with growing up poor, coping with her father's death and her overprotective mother, and combating the stigmas that come with being a small-breasted, impatient atheist. She reflects on paths not taken and the events contributing to her overall failure to assimilate into normal society. ​ 30 Failures by Age 30 is a compelling memoir, conversational in tone with moments both hilarious and heartbreaking. Katharine gives voice to the under-represented masses and encourages readers to reconsider the definition of ""failure."" 30 Failures by Age 30 resonates with anyone who's ever endured a life crisis or felt like a social misfit.

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"A short memoir divided in 30 essays--each essay just the right length and offered good insight into the author's thinking about a wide variety of topics. Part humor and part rant, this was a quick and (mostly) fun read. Entertaining and uniquely packaged, it held my attention and kept me company. --Grace Krispy, MotherLode Blog, June 2011 Failure is not an option; it's an inevitability. 30 Failures by Age 30 is a humorous and poignant memoir about life's failures and how they make us who we are. A humorous exploration of Katharine's many successes and failures, each chapter focuses on a struggle in her life that she has faced in her life and how she has pieced together something of a life in spite of it all. --Midwest Book Review: Reviewer's Bookwatch, July 2012 On the threshold of her 30th birthday, Katharine decides to celebrate this milestone in a rather unusual fashion; she composes a list of the 30 things she has FAILED to do! However, her list is far from depressing. Reading Katharine's essay-memoir reminded me of Jen Lancaster's humorous tales. There were many times I had to put the book down because I was laughing so hard. Still buried beneath the snarky humor are some serious observations such as in ""Failing to Procreate"", when Katharine discusses the social gulf between women with children and childfree women. 30 Failures By Age 30 would make a perfect 30th birthday gift or for anyone else who enjoys edgy humor. --DC Metroreader, May 2012"

A short memoir divided in 30 essays--each essay just the right length and offered good insight into the author's thinking about a wide variety of topics. Part humor and part rant, this was a quick and (mostly) fun read. Entertaining and uniquely packaged, it held my attention and kept me company. --Grace Krispy, MotherLode Blog, June 2011Failure is not an option; it's an inevitability. 30 Failures by Age 30 is a humorous and poignant memoir about life's failures and how they make us who we are. A humorous exploration of Katharine's many successes and failures, each chapter focuses on a struggle in her life that she has faced in her life and how she has pieced together something of a life in spite of it all. --Midwest Book Review: Reviewer's Bookwatch, July 2012 On the threshold of her 30th birthday, Katharine decides to celebrate this milestone in a rather unusual fashion; she composes a list of the 30 things she has FAILED to do! However, her list is far from depressing. Reading Katharine's essay-memoir reminded me of Jen Lancaster's humorous tales. There were many times I had to put the book down because I was laughing so hard. Still buried beneath the snarky humor are some serious observations such as in Failing to Procreate, when Katharine discusses the social gulf between women with children and childfree women. 30 Failures By Age 30 would make a perfect 30th birthday gift or for anyone else who enjoys edgy humor. --DC Metroreader, May 2012

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