I had heard this was a recommended book to read. I was intrigued. I will be 60 this year, so I wondered if there were a few things I had missed in life. Come to find out, there were several, and I truly wish this book had been given to me even before college. I think the more you know and understand about the unspoken rules of adulting, the happier and more productive your life will be. The author didn't just state very obvious things, either. She tackled the tough issues. I try to give most books a five star rating if they are interesting and provide something new for me to digest. However, I don't always necessarily 100 percent believe certain things she discussed. When it comes to topics such as faith, or how to date/couple, I am a Christian who believes the best and only advice is to put God first, and sex waits until after marriage. No, I did not make the perfect decision myself, but I can look back now and see that. Can you have a successful marriage going out of order? Sure, but it is a harder and more painful road, IMO, and you are taking a chance it won't work going out of order. Other than those kinds of topics, I almost always fully agreed with what the author had to say. Great gift to give to someone who is young and starting out in life. Or a refresher book for those of us who have grown old and set in our ways. And for the very immature, a wakeup call on how to DO better and BE better! ( )

Non-fiction and rather adorable. The kind of book that makes you smile, makes you make lists, make plans, makes you frown, makes you want to throw across the room and have temper tantrums about I Don't Have To Grow Up, You Can't Make Me, and it will still be quietly, patiently, wisely, waiting for you when you come back an hour or three days later, needing to know more and with your rebellious hold of your wildness once again under your thumb.

This is very likely the book I'm going to get several copies of and give out at Christmas this year. ( )

I’m here seeking advice from one of my peers about adulthood. Which is fair. I probably wouldn’t listen to an old rich white dude mansplain being an adult, which, he probably wouldn’t actually do, but instead tell me to stop whining and suck it up. But Kelly I can relate to. Her unique white female millennial problems are my white female millennial problems. Which is problematic.

This book is great for me. And other suburban-middle-class-raised millennial women. While there is a tremendous amount of helpful (and some less than helpful) general information in Adulting, ranging from relationships with other people to relationships with your houseplants, there’s an inherent bias that I’ve come to find exists in most of the self-help books that I’ve read. I pick up the ones that I do because either a, they’re funny, or b, the girl on the cover looks a bit like me.

Which leads me to my biggest theoretical question, is the pop-psychology style of self-improvement a luxury of the privileged? I’ve taken stock of the customers at the bookstore this past holiday season who have been asking for Girl Wash Your Face, the bestseller from Rachel Hollis, and I have discovered that they are mostly middle-aged, white, stay-at-home moms.

I’m not entirely sure of the answer to my question, but if you are really seeking to make a great change in your life, one that will require actual effort and perseverance and will have an outstandingly positive impact on your life, skip this book. If you’re a middle-class millennial woman who really just needs someone to tell her how to clean her kitchen like me, go for it. Knock yourself out. There’s some helpful bits. ( )

It was a handy book, even though I had read it in my late '20s so some of the tips were "Well, duh." I plan on gifting it to my sister, who is about to graduate high school! ( )

Theoretically I am too old for this book, but I defy you to find a better, funnier, more useful and thoughtful resource when you're wondering if you've thought of all the things. Very well written combination of rueful don't-do-what-I-did advice and pragmatic, sympathetic tools for getting through the hard annoying bits of adulthood. Great graduation gift, but I also just found it helpful. ( )