"Spinster" by Kate Bolick wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be. Part memoir, part nonfiction of other women, Kate has basically spent her whole life in relationships. She's always dating, has a very active social life, has lived with boyfriends. She just never felt like she could get married, and wondered if something was wrong with her. She admired history's great spinsters (and spinsterish women who married), and has decided to make a life of her own. Well...good for you. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be single (although I would argue she really hasn't ever been without a boyfriend, or at least dates), but some people are single not by choice or because we want to be, but because life is unfair and it sucks. Me, bitter? No, not in the slightest :)
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