Hello dear Readers,
My book review of Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell.
Title: Is There Still Sex in the City?
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Genre: General Fiction
Author: Candace Bushnell
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: August 06, 2019
Language: English
Book Description
Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty.
Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? follows a cohort of female friends―Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace―as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There’s “Cubbing,” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the “Mona Lisa” Treatment―a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee. From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today’s relationship landscape and the types that roam it.
Drawing from her own experience, in Is There Still Sex in the City? Bushnell spins a smart, lively satirical story of love and life from all angles―marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century from one of our most important social commentators.
My Thoughts
As much as I love Sex and the City, both, the book and the TV Show, but I had a hard time reading this book. Partly because of my expectations as to loving Sex and the City, but mostly what I thought this book was going to be about, in my mind, another Sex and the City first book.
Not that the topics presented on the book are not relevant to our times or real but in my mind, I kept picturing these four characters I became to love so much but of course, not the same time, not the same book. Also, the writing on this one did not make it for me, finding the story a little depressing and boring at times.
Overall, an ok story but not what I was expecting.
Thank you Grove Press and Netgalley for the free advanced copy, in exchange for an honest review.
Wendy
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