Self Indulgent Woman Writes About Self Indulgentness
339891
It was a pretty easy read but I want a huge fan her mindset overall. Many of the benefits of marriage she mentioned seemed rather trivial. And she just comes off as self involved and selfish. I'm a full advocate of doing whatever you want to do, single, married, whatever, but this just came off as an excuse to bitch. Definitely not a great guide for embracing singledom IMO.
4044164
The Happiness Project: or why I spent what feels like a year reading about some awful, whiny, pretentious woman's first world problems.
504928
The author should add herself to her list of people she wants to punch in the throat, as I certainly want to add her to the list. She's just as self-obsessed as the mommies she makes fun of, just on a more foulmouthed level. Sadly, this book just goes to prove that anyone can get a book deal.
1030566
Weird woman-child like immature writing, like twilight or a romance novel.  Only this "author" is leveraging nazi occupation for cheap emotional impact she can't affect otherwise. Gross.  So Gross.  What's wrong with this woman!?
656383
Though she talks as  a sculptress, you realize she is learning what it takes to be a good author. It takes an incredible discipline. And internal selfishness. She opens eyes.
3391912
She is unapologetic for her own actions and decisions. I would have given this book more credibility if she did. Very poorly written and I feel bad for her husbands. A very selfish group of narcissistic people.
4784403
This isn't a good review in that I didn't finish the book, I just couldn't force myself through any more. I read to page 112 and deleted it from my e-reader. I didn't like the main character at all. It's not giving anything away to say that she's been a kept woman (it's in the title) and she has felt guilty about it, even though she is told over and over again that she was doing her part in the relationship. She makes meals, she lays out clothes, she makes her boyfriend happy etc... And yet, she continues to refer to herself as a whore. I'm wondering who the author thinks reads her books? Lots of us moms that read during nap time, or during soccer practice would really be offended to think that their significant others are the only people contributing because they go to work full time. So read it if you want, I'm just glad it was free.
4549995
The main character is very whiny and very unopposed to change. She spends most of the book feeling sorry for herself. Not a book I would read a second time.
3611830
This woman had one heck of a life, unfortunately she`s only giving hints about it in this book. Everything appears so sugar coated, except for the unfair treatment of her mentally ill son or when she didn`t get a part she really deserved or when someone (heaven forbid) didn`t like her.... that appears to be blame the system and blame everyone else. There`s name dropping all over, but it goes no farther than that. She loved everyone and everything and life was wonderful, except when it wasn`t, but lets not talk about that.....What? This was written by her younger son and he gives himself plenty of "shout outs" too.  What could have a really exciting and entertaining book bored me to tears and because I bought it, I forced myself to read every page. I thought it would never end! Save your time and your money and do not buy or even borrow this book.
451770
One of the most self indulgent main characters I have ever wasted my time trying to read. And boy can this author drag out a storyline. I made about a quarter of the way through before no longer cared about the characters or what happened in the story.
3829904
This book is well written but the subject matter is very self absorbed.  She's someone it's hard to imagine being more self-absorbed than she was.  Even though the author admires her, by the end of the book you wonder why.
301275
I picked up this book on the strength of good reviews and found myself wanting to throw it at the wall.  The author is a fine writer with a good sense of humor who seemed to want to write about her journey to self fullfilment, spiritual awakening and happiness. Instead she came off as a priviledged, slightly spoiled writer who needed an excuse for a writers advance so she could travel for free. She reveals herself to be a spiritual narcissist who obsessively navel gazes. While many passages are light hearted and funny and she is oh, so very clever and witty!! there was no real depth, no real meaningful questions asked or answered except for how she could get more breaks and be FULFILLED.  It seemed like an extended article for SELF magazine.  Instead order books by Kathleen Norris or even Anne LaMott for God's sake!
3255071
Booring, just a bunch of half motivationstories ans self bragging. I had to force my self to finnish the book so I could truely give it 1 star
2987197
You could tell this memoir was written by a self-professed non-reader who isn't accustomed to introspection or using words to describe feelings. The meaty, interesting stuff in her life is covered with a sentence or two, whereas multiple pages are dedicated to describing past outfits or pet cats. I don't dispute that she has a compelling fashion vision and has led an interesting life due in part to being in the right place at the right time, but she is not the type of creative person who can put these experiences into words that connect with you as a reader. She comes off as crotchety, which may have been part of her charm in September Issue, but in her memoir this "voice" grows tiresome and doesn't feel totally sincere.
1277566
I used to be a huge fan of Brandi, but she has acted like such a self righteous arrogant bitch this year i almost didn't buy it. I bought it because i have been having a horrible romantic life lately and i wanted to read about someone's dating life that is worse than mine!
1553111
The East Coast has plenty of privately educated, self-centered rich girls who spew their mouth diarrhea all over social media and the occasional wine bar. What makes Pu unique is her unparalleled self-righteousness and belief that anyone dumb enough to be entertained by her exploits has the attention span to read a "book." You chose to screw around in your early twenties instead of buckling down with a real job or grad school? Good for you... but plenty of us had fun AND did something other than write about how cool we thought we were. And if we did write a book, it wouldn't sound like we are standing in line at Starbucks narrating our daily existence to our bestie!

The sad part is that all of this attention and "advertising revenue" (I'm guessing, at most, a couple grand for her blog from what will ultimately be non-repeat visitors) will fade away in about a week and her life will only go downhill. Nobody will buy the book she self-publishes about this entire controversy. The older men that have been picking her up at DC happy hours will start going for younger and prettier girls who have something to talk about other than themselves and the past. In a few years, Pu's memoir, "30 and I wrote 5 books about myself" will be the first ever self-published book to be rejected by Amazon.
1102573
This book was a self-serving account of one woman's journey to The Kingdom.  I was hoping to get more of an account of healthcare and cultural aspects of Saudi.  Instead the author (who obviously thinks very highly of herself) goes on and on about how every guy she meets falls in love with her and how she can't resist the temptation to sleep with them.  All the men are handsome to her and all of them are "passionate" lovers.  By 2/3 of the way into the book, I found it difficult to keep track of who she was sleeping with in whatever chapter I was reading.  I found it hilarious how she judged the character Johnnie for her lifestyle when the author had revealed she has little moral fiber of her own.