What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
A Memoir

This book easily skyrocketed to one of my favorite reads; it's irreverent, laugh-out-out-funny, hopeful, desperate, and most of all, deeply courageous. Kristin Newman shares the details of her life that most of us would be too shameful to ever confess while simultaneously capturing the feeling of sa......more

I gave this 2.5 stars. Similar to Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, this book is packaged as a travel memoir about a woman who's gone off the beaten path for "self-discovery," but instead ends up really just being 200+ pages of one woman's persistent pursuit of a......more

I received an ARC of this book and oh I wanted to like it so badly. The title is so good and I love a good travel memoir. But it wasn't to be. The problem I guess for me was that the I just couldn't get past the fact that this is a long winded brag about all of the men Newman bedded in foreign count......more

Wow, wow, wow. Kristin Newman’s memoir is funny, poignant, and very relatable – even for those of us who fall more squarely into the “breeder” category. I’ll admit – I was hesitant to pick this one up at first on the title alone. I’m 27, recently married, and while I don’t have any kids yet, there’s......more

What I Was doing While You Were Breeding, an attractive title for any unmarried person but it would seem to me a bit combative and accusatory for those who are hitched up while fumbling with a car seat and a puking toddler. Basically the author tells about her adventures in travel as a single woman.......more