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Trivial Grievances

On the Contradictions, Myths and Misery of Your 30s

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Trivial Grievances

By: Bridie Jabour
Narrated by: Sophie Loughran
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An oddly optimistic, witty, and insightful generation-defining book for a lost generation, the miserable Millennials, from Bridie Jabour, opinion editor at Guardian Australia

In 2019, Bridie Jabour wrote a piece for the Guardian about the malaise of millennials and how the painful, protracted end of their adolescence is finally hitting home. They're looking at their lives and thinking: "Is this it? Have I chosen the right place to live, the right job, the right partner? Am I, perhaps, not as special as I thought?"

The article went viral overnight and Bridie decided the time had come to write a book about her generation - those much-maligned millennials. After all, she reasoned, this generation is coming of age in a unique set of social and economic circumstances, including precarious work, delayed baby-making, rising singledom, a heating planet, loss of religion, increased unstable housing and, now, a pandemic. But despite her assumption that this generation of 31-year-olds is the most miserable ever, she discovered that wasn't the whole truth....

Forthright, funny, incisive, and provocative, Trivial Grievances is truly a book for our times, and for every 20- or 30-something-year-old anxious about their place in the world.

©2021 Bridie Jabour (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Career Success Essays Motivation & Self-Improvement Relationships Social Sciences Witty Funny
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Such an enjoyable perspective... relatable read... easy listen. Thanks Bridie for getting me thinking in lockdown.

Just read it!

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A necessary progress check on the little generation that could - but hasn’t.
A living autopsy on what the “gifted” kids did after school (and the psychological dicking that title caused).
A funny counterweight against the idea there were too many merit awards in the 90s.
And the answer to what happens to people that can afford everything they want but none of the things they need.
5/5 or 10/10 whichever you prefer

Tragifection

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I’ve already read this book but loved revisiting it in audio form. A must read for millennials.

An excellent companion for silly little mental health walks

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I was under the impression that this would be an intelligent, funny, outlook on what it is like to be in your 30's in this day and age - an idea that the cover represents.

But this book is NOT any of those things. There are some interesting points, but the rest is just the author's opinion, which is entirely too smug. It isn't funny, it isn't insightful, it isn't deep, it wasn't as relevant or as relatable as I had hoped.

It was like I was stuck in a lecture by that friend who is vapid and ignorant, but has picked up few interesting points along the way - enough to sound just smart enough to get by - but never lets you get word in edge wise. While all her opinions are gospel.

Plus the narrator made the author sound even more painfully vapid.
I'm returning this book.

So VERY disappointed.


So very disappointing

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was enjoying it until the marriage chapter that made singlehood sound like a sad waiting period. Wish she had interviewed someone who is happily single, and while glad she acknowledged that it's harder to buy property, I wish she would have acknowledged that the things about being single that are hardest are the social exclusion parts - eg while SHE finds weddings fascinating, for some of us, the social obligation to attend weddings is boring, expensive and ostrasizing, and that it would be nice if we as a culture celebrated women for things besides marriage and babies. Where's my gift registry???

not a good perspective for single people

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