Dana Schwartz

A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISASTER is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.

Choose Your Own Disaster

Micah

Dana Schwartz can really make you secondhand cringe so hard it feels like you're first-hand cringing, laugh hard enough to concern your dog, and cry with rage in quick succession. She is THAT BITCH.

A"hilarious and heartbreaking" (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping--and sometimes failing--to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best. This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer.

A fun concept of a choose-your-own-adventure memoir, but it just doesn’t work for the genre (I had to go back and look for the chapters I totally missed to feel like I read the whole memoir which defeats the purpose of choosing pathways). I’m not necessarily making a choice as a reader—most of the time, as soon as I make the “wrong one,” the story just ends and has you to back to make the different choice. 

Some funny areas of writing, but topics quickly become redundant. Plot is a little lacking. 

taylor miles hopkins

A fun concept of a choose-your-own-adventure memoir, but it just doesn’t work for the genre (I had to go back and look for the chapters I totally missed to feel like I read the whole memoir which defeats the purpose of choosing pathways). I’m not necessarily making a choice as a reader—most of the time, as soon as I make the “wrong one,” the story just ends and has you to back to make the different choice. 

Some funny areas of writing, but topics quickly become redundant. Plot is a little lacking. 

Choose Your Own Disaster

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