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Losing It

A Novel

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Losing It

By: Emma Rathbone
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
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 "Wise and witty... Losing It is cringingly insightful about sex and dating and all the ways we tie ourselves into knots over both." --The New York Times Book Review

A hilarious novel that Maggie Shipstead calls "charming... witty and insightful," about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it—and find herself.

Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change.

To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina. It's not long, however, before she unearths a confounding secret—her 58 year old aunt is a virgin too. In the unrelenting heat of the southern summer, Julia becomes fixated on puzzling out what could have lead to Viv's appalling condition, all while trying to avoid the same fate.

For readers of Rainbow Rowell and Maria Semple, and filled with offbeat characters and subtle, wry humor, Losing It is about the primal fear that you just. might. never. meet. anyone. It's about desiring something with the kind of obsessive fervor that almost guarantees you won't get it. It's about the blurry lines between sex and love, and trying to figure out which one you're going for. And it's about the decisions—and non-decisions—we make that can end up shaping a life. Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Funny Witty
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not exactly what I wanted, the lead is a bit washy, not an easy listen.

I want more from this story. Unfortunately I didn't get it, I felt the lead just came across as a bit useless, I understand she was preoccupied with her virginity but she just annoyed me. I spent the last 2 or 3 chapters wishing it was over. It wasn't as funny as it could have been, the potential for humour was there but it never quite peaked.

*spoiler alert* When the losing of the virginity happened it wasn't spectacular enough, yes I know it isn't in real life but the lead just came across as bored! Which was a shame really.

Doubt that I will listen again.

Narrator was great, really enjoyed that part.

I had really high hopes...

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