Name: HOW TO ADULT
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9780369333148

ANNA. BLACKIE

A Guide to Not Being a Trash Human, and Other Life Lessons

HOW TO ADULT

Anna Blackie

Do you know your shiraz from your merlot? Could you find north if you were lost in the wilderness? Are you craving gravy but don't how to make this magical sauce? The answers are all here. From doing your taxes to changing a tire, asking for a raise to mastering the art of avocado preparation. This is the ultimate guide to all of the things a fully functioning adult should know to survive in the big scary world. Packed with sage advice from a real-life hopeless millennial, this book will keep you from starvation, make folding fitted sheets a reality, and teach you to look like a real professional adult when you're actually just an incompetent trash human. Adulting goals AF.

How to Adult

Jessica Smith

There's nothing wrong with reading your Christmas gifts for other people before wrapping them up and handing them out, right? Right?!

At any rate: this is a funny, breezy book that sure, does include some helpful tips and guides… but maybe more importantly than that, it hits the nail on the head with what kinds of challenges are fuck-off annoying for a young adult just starting to have to do all this crap themselves. Some of the chapters are definitely more useful than others (the one on cleaning >>>> the one on fishing, for example) but the book is hilarious throughout. Enjoyed it quite a bit, and hoping my gift recipient feels the same way.

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Katerina Thorson

4.5/5
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**Thank you to Pantera Press and the author for sending me a copy of this book, in exchange for my honest review. 

Sometimes you just need to sit down and read a book that tells you how much you suck at being an adult. Or, in my case, how disgusting you are for the lack of sheet washing...I mean did you know that we are suppose to wash our sheets once a week.

Who would have thought.

Anna Blackie does an amazing job at spelling out how difficult it is at being an adult. Because trust me it is and it fricken sucks. So if anyone is 18 or younger and still living at home. Soak it the fuck up, because kiddos once you are away from mommy and daddy life changes. Like, literally, your life is forever altered. No going back now.


  I am filthy and disgusting and probably the reason Jesus cries at night


So here are all the reasons why you need to pick up this book whether you are already a "seasoned" adult or a newbie:

1. There are some amazing financial pointer
I don't know about you but I had to have my mommy come with me and hold my hand when I did my first tax appointment. It was nerve wrecking, daunting, and downright exhausting. Blackie does an amazing job at explaining many of the things that one needs to know financially when entering the adult world. From taxes to how credit cards work - this book covers the big need to know items. I want to point out for my USA friends that this book was written by an Australian so some of the things either don't apply to us or they just use a different word than what we are used to. The information is still valid and very practical.

2. Adult language and the bluntness
Some of you might be WTF Kat that is all you care about. Most of the time I read YA literature where there is little to no swearing, so give me a break. Here is an adult woman giving us the low down and sometimes you just need to be straight to the point. I also love how blunt Blackie is when it comes to many of her points and tips. My favorite is these little boxes that are labeled "Shit you should know"


  I have also had to learn a harsh reality of adult life: living out of home means you have to keep yourself alive


3. The research the author puts in for us
Doesn't it feel nice that you actually don't have to look up how to boil an egg, how to do the correct exercises when an author lays it all out for you. Many authors, not all, when writing "how to" books don't take the time to truly look into the topic they are writing. They just write what they know. However, Anna Blackie proves to us that millennial's can still take the time and do deep research, connect with people that know there shit, and give us resounding information. A "how to" book with actual accurate information because there are real people that validate it...the world must be ending.

4. The topics
From finances to surviving the outdoors this book has many useful topics. Some might say that it's information everyone knows but I would have to disagree. I mean would you know what to do if you were lost in the woods? Would you know what wood you could burn without causing a forest fire? No well this book helps out. Even the simplest of topics seemed to have information that even I did not know. So kudos to Anna Blackie for making a well rounded "How to" book for adults. 

There are so many things that I love about this book. And the biggest is the blunt front that Blackie takes with her audience. If you are heading off to college, moving out on your own for the first time, or just needing a reminder that you suck at being an adult because we all suck at being adults - then definitely think about picking up this book!

HOW TO ADULT A Guide to Not Being a Trash Human, and Other Life Lessons

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