Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

Jen Lancaster, a memoirist known for her humor, decides that at forty she needs to learn how to act like an adult. She looks at her habits, such as buying things she cannot afford and eating junk food, and sets out to correct them. Over the course of the year she tries to get fit, to cook proper meals, to manage money, and to deal with the chores that her younger self avoided. She writes with her usual sarcasm and the book includes a good deal of Chicago-area detail.

It suits readers who enjoy her earlier memoirs and who like humorous essays about self-improvement attempts. Anyone who has felt that they are behind on adulthood will recognize the situations, and the short chapters make it good for reading in bursts.

Practical and clear-cut; an easy read.

Best for readers like The Practical Optimizer. Which reader are you?