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    Nerdy Thirty

    By Wendy Townley

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    Set primarily in Omaha and small towns throughout Nebraska, "Nerdy Thirty" comically recounts the author's "nerdy" experiences in elementary school, high school, college, and her twenties, leading up to her 30th birthday. The book celebrates awkward and unusual situations she found herself in, including: camping for the first time; spending a weekend at a rodeo; masquerading for a night as Audrey Hepburn; socializing at a lesbian bar; and finding her voice as a writer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriteLife Publishing
    Release dateMay 4, 2010
    ISBN9781608080236
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    Nerdy Thirty
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    Wendy Townley

    An Omaha native, Townley earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2002. She is now working toward a master's degree in communication. Townley has worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance magazine writer for more than 10 years. "Nerdy Thirty" is her first book.

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    • 2/5
      Nerdy Thirty by Wendy Townley is a book composed of short quirky stories about Wendy Townley's life. The stories are humorous, interesting and sometimes bizarre. My favorite story is Slut Be A Lady Tonight. I thought it was quite humorous. It's about a lady who was pretending to be host of a rock radio station who was trying to get an interview with Wendy's boyfriend's band in a bar. Some of the stories are about life lessons learned and weird things that happened to Wendy Townley on her way to being thirty. This is an okay read. I liked most of the stories but there were some that seemed so random, I didn't know what to make of them. However life is random and everyone's experience is different. Wendy Townley has compiled her experiences, good and bad in this novella.
    • 2/5
      I was really looking to love this book. Duh… I’m a “Nerdy Thirty!” I’m not ashamed of my nerdiness. I embrace it and all that comes with it.When I started Nerdy Thirty there was a pretty constant pace. I often times would laugh out loud or smirk but then something happened. I loved when Wendy went into detail about her first experience at a rodeo. She even gave a history lesson about the rodeo for us history buffs. But then… By the time I got to page 34 I felt like she was rambling. I instantly felt like, “Honey get on with now!” But after that things just weren’t the same for me.This book was full of hits and misses for me. Sometimes I liked the essays and at other times I couldn’t wait to get to the last page (97 pages).Then I was done…and I made my notes. After reading books I always write my lasting thoughts. So here goes (exactly what I wrote), “went from funny to okay to girl what’s your point?” I felt like the delivery was just …However she did take me back down memory lane as she reminisced about our addictive days of AOL chat, Delia’s catalog’s and Claire’s. Although we came from different backgrounds we enjoyed some of the same things as young girls. Things like that make me smile. We are all the same in some way or the other.One last thing that baffled me was: He joked about getting me into a cowboy hat just once that weekend, and he succeeded. Knowing my love for the color purple (the hue, not the movie), he made a beeline for one of vendors. He plucked a purple cowboy hat from the shelf and placed it atop my head.Is it just me… why did she say, “the hue, not the movie.” Really! What was the reason for pointing that out… Did it mean she didn’t like the movie or did she think the reader would be confused?All-in-all this book was okay. It started off interesting but it didn’t keep me the entire time.