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Tabloid Love: Book Review |
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Book Reviews -
Women's Health and Psychology
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Written by DivaTribe Member Lara
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Tabloid Love, by Bridget Harrison
Reviewed by Lara F.
In Tabloid Love, Bridget Harrison describes her trials and tribulations in her journey from London to New York City as a reporter for the New York Post. In a memoir written with candor, heartbreak and humor, Bridget describes what life is like in a big city without anyone to grab ahold of. The book itself had a very familiar feel from watching countless episodes of Sex and the City but I enjoyed the real life twists and turns without the constant hang-up on shoes, wardrobes and fears of countryside.
Bridget soon begins writing a dating column for her newspaper which provides many opportunities to date recklessly and also creates tension in her relationship with her boss-turned-boyfriend.
Although you're desperately routing for this couple to 'make it' against all odds it's also refreshing to follow a writer through her struggles with maintaining a boyfriend while having life tear at you from all sides.
I felt the writer's excitement and anxiety as she arrived in New York on the first day to her struggles with leaving everyone behind. She spoke in a very real account of how every situation both good and bad left her guessing if she'd made the right choices and wondering if it was best to pack it up and go home or stick it out through the good and bad in the city. All of the above was woven throughout the story whether she was off on a reporting story in the backwoods of England or the war zone of urban New York; or trying her luck with speed dating and late night cocktail hours with the girls.
Tabloid Love shields you from the day in day out drama of life in a big city and skips through Bridget's life with comfortable leaps allowing you to glimpse her evolution with friends (from having none to desperately clinging to anyone to finally finding her group of confidants) and is told in a very sincere and truthful account of her experience as a girl (sometimes single, sometimes not) in New York.
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