Backwards in High Heels

Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female - Tania Kindersley & Sarah Vine

From Amazon: "This smart and frank collection distills the trials and triumphs of being a woman, all in a gifty volume filled with whimsical fullcolor illustrations. In 15 subject-driven chapters relevant to women of all ages, authors Tania Kindersley and Sarah Vine’s essays cover topics ranging from feminism to face cream, motherhood to money, and politics to perfection. Titles like “The Danger of Romantic Love,” “Why There is No Such Thing as a Guilt-Free Working Mother,” “How Not to Go Mad,” parts 1 and 2, and “Why There is No Excuse for Bad Sex” develop into a tuned and sophisticated voice that is at once a mother, best friend, and shrink, revising expectations, bashing stereotypes, and illuminating the experience of life."

I thought this book would be more along the lines of Camilla Morton's How to Walk in High Heels - which was pretty funny. This book had it's moments too, but it wasn't really that interesting to me. Some of the things were things that I wouldn't have thought about, like having a chapter on grief.. but really, the whole point of that chapter was to say that everyone deals with it differently.. which I already knew.

Overall, not my favourite book, and it took me a really long time to read. By the way, it's not impossible to be female. We're all doing it without the "help" of books like this.