Lena Dunham is not that type of girl and nor will she ever be; she is the creator, writer, director and star of HBO's award winning TV show GIRLS ... and she is also friends with Taylor Swift (that should really be included on her Wikipedia page under achievements).
If you do not know who Dunham is but you once watched a season, an episode or even just five minutes of GIRLS then she was probably the naked one or the one self diagnosing herself with rare diseases via Google. Dunham has always allowed herself to be an open book and now she is literally an open book (well she's written a book that you can open).
I bought Not That Kind of Girl within three days of it being released, as did most girls who are looking for some type of guidance or a way to feel a little bit better about the many mistakes they've made thus far as the blurb promises to "prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away."
I read the book in an attempt to feel better about some of my not-so-great choices and instead ended up relating to it a whole lot more then I ever wanted to admit. The collection of essays that make up this book are hilarious and at the same time tragic, with titles like:
Take My Virginity (No Really, Take It),
18 Unlikely Things I've Said Flirtatiously,
My Internet Boyfriend Died And So Can Yours,
Who Moved My Uterus?,
13 Things I've Learned Are Not Okay To Say To Friends,
Guide To Running Away.
You laugh and you cringe through this entire book because Dunham presents us with life, no gimmicks, no embellishments, just twenty-something-year-olds trying to simultaneously survive the perils of university and Tinder.
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