Thirty-Life Crisis: Navigating My Thirties, One Drunk Baby Shower at a Time

by Lisa Schwartz

Overview

A hilarious essay collection perfect for anyone dealing with the challenges, indignities, and celebrations that come with being a thirty-something by actor and YouTube star Lisa Schwartz (Lisbug).


Lisa Schwartz's stories and musings are all about watching her friends adult like pros, while she tries to understand why she doesn't want or can't seem to find all the things they have for herself. Like a big sister who's already seen it all, Lisa will take readers through her own life experiences to say that one thing we all need to hear: you are so not alone. Unabashed and unfiltered, Schwartz's voice and candor will appeal to anyone in their thirties who just can't deal with the never-ending Facebook feed of friends' engagement photos and baby pictures, the trials of figuring out where their passion meets their career, and everything in between.

So, if you've ever had to figure out...

• Parenting Your Parents (Yikes)
• Gender Reveal Parties (It's an actual thing.)
• Discovering That Your Boyfriend Likes Boys (Surprise!)
• Online Shopping Away Your Anxiety (Don't)
• or Gender Reveal Parties (Seriously. It's an actual thing.)

This book is your new best friend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538763094
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	783,508
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Best known for her successful and irreverent YouTube channel, Lisbug, which features original comedic and musical content, Lisa Schwartz has garnered more than 2 million unique subscribers and over 395 million views. Her most popular video, a parody of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off," generated 19 million views and received coverage in several outlets, including The Huffington Post. Lisa also starred opposite frequent collaborator Shane Dawson in the feature length comedy "Not Cool," which immediately shot to #1 on iTunes and Netflix.

Most recently she created and starred in the Freeform original series Party Girl, which premiered at Tribeca in April and can be seen on Hulu. The show is currently being developed for network TV. She also created the comedy series in which she starred, This Isn't Working, which premiered to tremendous success on ABC Go and Hulu. As a comedic host, Lisa has made many online segments for Seventeen and Yahoo and is currently hosting the after show for ABC's The Bachelor franchise.

Table of Contents

The Author of This Book Took My Virginity: A Foreword Shane Dawson xi

Introduction: Raised on Seinfeld xix

Gender-Reveal Party-Yes, It's a Fucking Thing 1

Peter Pan Fail 16

Water Cooler Conversations Are Real 32

My Denim Security Blanket 49

Fake It Till You Make It, or Until You Panic and Succumb to Zoloft 64

Baby Names vs. Binge Eating 81

My Gay Boyfriend 96

Wine and Nuts: My Night with a Hollywood Legend 115

The Wedding Circuit 132

Little Miss Bossy 151

Twelve Whiskeys and a Funeral 163

My Four-Legged Child 177

Selfish Care: A Guide to Staying Young at Heart and Looking Damn Good While Doing It 192

Conclusion: Don't Be Fooled-Everything You See Has a Filter on It 206

Epilogue: A Year Later 221

Acknowledgments 227

About the Author 231

Editorial Reviews

06/10/2019

Actor and YouTube personality Schwartz recounts the lows of life in her 30s in an occasionally amusing debut memoir. Schwartz’s observations are standard fare: “The minute you turn thirty, everything starts to change... your metabolism gets slower, and your friends get married and have babies.” Schwartz admits to having a “disdain for love, marriage, and childbirth” and discusses how her annoyance with gender-reveal parties grew to the point that she considered setting up a gift registry for herself to offset the cost of attending other people’s parties. Throughout, she offers well-meaning but generic advice on topics including friendship (“stick with the friends you made in middle school”) and online dating (“treat it like a full-time job”). The strongest sections delve into Schwartz’s struggles with anxiety, her body image issues, and her relationship with fellow YouTuber Shane Dawson. Schwartz and Dawson—each with millions of subscribers—documented their romance on YouTube until their relationship ended in 2015 when Dawson posted a video announcing that he was bisexual. Schwartz too sparingly discusses her YouTube career, which is a shame as it’s the most unique part of her story. This memoir about growing older (sometimes gracelessly) will appeal most to Schwartz’s YouTube fans, particularly those approaching 30. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly