How To Build A Girl, a novel. By Caitlin Moran

"I have made my notes now you see, on how to build a girl and put her out in the world. Everyone drinks, everyone smokes, boozy Mickey Jeremy is a damn fine woman. You come into a room and say things, like you're in a play. You fake it til you make it. You discuss sex like it's a game, you have adventures, you don't quote musicals. Whatever everyone else is doing, you do that. You say things to be heard, rather to than to be right. You keen at streets lights thinking they are the sun."

Excerpt from How to Build a Girl, by Caitlin Moran

I LOVE THIS BOOK. 

The title of this book comes from the amazing excerpt above, prior to this I had never read Moran before. I have Audible to thank for taking my prior selections and creating the algorithm that brought 'How to Build a Girl,' by Caitlin Moran into my world. In the style of her first novel, ' Moran writes from an honest place, she tells stories that are hilarious, heart warming, endlessly raunchy. I was painfully aware that versions of these things have occurred in her life. From the emotionally invested descriptions she gave I knew that these characters were people she loved and loves, people she knows and knew, things are slanted, picked apart and ingredients added but the skeleton is true to experience. The semi-autobiographical style that is Moran's signature isn't the first genre I usually run to but this content is definitely the sort of fodder that I enjoy. Jokes that are on-par with the Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman.

I want to be Johanna Morgan, the main character, a young lady at such a fun place in her life's time line. She is figuring things out, making mistakes, being 'adorably filthy' and living a rock and roll lifestyle in London! I do not however envy that things that Johanna eats through out the book, because of her family's struggles to keep food on the table cheese sandwiches are the norm. Also I don't envy being young enough to be an enthusiastic cigarette smoker. I thank my lucky stars very often that I was able to quit that habit before I was able to legally buy them myself, but that's a story for another day. 

EXCERPTS THAT I LOVE

Weird details that I love. <3

Moran touched on a hilarious fact that Mr. Ferguson and I have had a hilarious conversation about in the recent past.

"Any woman can get laid, anytime that she wants. Any woman. Any time. " 

Unlike most girls that I know personally, Dolly Wild, main character Johanna Morgan's alter ego, looses her virginity before she gives her first blow job. Although she manages it with a bit of grace, I'm pretty glad I did it the other way around and I just wanted to tell someone.

The Writer // CAITLIN MORAN

Moran's website is gorgeous, her blogs hilarious and the video content lives up. I enjoyed making this new friend through this book. Moran's stunning physical beauty is haunting and charming like Helena Bonham Carter and her writing is funny, smart and honest. In a nut shell I have a girl crush!

BUY THE BOOK & READ IT.

#READWOMENin2015 is alive and real in my life. I prefer non-fiction, sociological centered, books that make tears fall out of my eye balls but every now and again a person should throw in a book that makes you laugh more than frown.

Girls need stories like this, girls need writers like Caitlin Moran. Girls need to be exposed to funny stories about masturbation, stories that express sexual desires, confusions and triumphs. Girls need to not live lives of shame. I love her honest attitude and witty words. 

xoxox, kp

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