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The Art Of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex (2011)

by Sophie Fontanel(Favorite Author)

2.54 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1451696272 (ISBN13: 9781451696271)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Scribner

review 1: This is well-written but left me feeling lonelier than I thought I was at all. First of all, it is rather annoying to read about narrators who have such vapid, superficial friends, especially the whole couples scene. About half way through this memoir, I wanted to scream to the narrator, not having sex is not the problem, your friends make you feel lonely and odd. While one may read this and think this is something unusual, brave and original, it is not. I hate to break the news to this memoirist, but most of the women I know who are single, including myself, know that it is not about having sex that is the problem in our lives. It is the lack of truly emotionally mature, responsible, adult male companionship that is wanting. Sex is easy if you want it, relationship ... moreis not. I believe the premise behind the tome could have been much more engaging and memorable had the writer chose to draw us in with more of an honest look at why she would choose celibacy consciously. I do not mean emoting for the sake of gory details. I just would have liked more poignancy to her story beyond a few glimpses into past exploits that neither explained nor offered an underlying motive for her choice. I literally read this in one sitting.
review 2: This book confused me a lot ! Well the idea behind it was nice and I sort of liked the random moments and short chapters but then again I really felt like they were too short to really explain some of the moments. I dunno really, it did open me up to new ideas and it is true society still isn't expecting of people who don't want to have sex, so it was interesting to read something from that point of you. less

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