A review by emjay24
I'm Not the New Me by Wendy McClure

2.0

This is a memoir by the woman who writes poundy.com which is a blog that I've never read, but is apparently popular. It's very disjointed, and normally I like disjointed memoirs, with little stories from the author's lives, like blogs, but this was disjointed in a not so great way. The ending had no closure or sense of ending. The main character didn't grow on me. I wanted to like this book because it's the type of book i would like, but somehow i just didn't. In the book, the author decides to join weight watchers and starts a blog, which was quite a while ago when they first started, because she has to kind of code each page herself, and calls it a weblog all the time, so it's before the word was even shortened. The blog goes well, her dating doesn't, and her weight watchering goes ok, but it's not the main focus of the book. My favorite part of the book which I really liked was the insert. The insert was color photos of old weight watcher recipe cards from the 70s I think, that she found at her mom or grandmothers house. Those are some gross, weird looking foods! I would say that maybe she was just too unlike me for me to enjoy it, but usually i like memoirs of people who are unlike me as well, so no idea. its not bad though, just not great. if you've read her blog, then obvi you want to read this.