Review: What Comes Next and How to Like It

What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Memoir, with somewhat random reflections on the past, with some self-analysis of the author’s life mixed in along the way. I appreciated that the flow was very much like a daily journaling exercise, and the author has a way to explain things simply, the results of a writer who has spent a lot of time thinking about her life. This shows you how this practice can work to build into a more cohesive story by providing examples of actions and thoughts at different times in the authors life, at different events. It is some attempt at understanding herself, while also acknowledging the bad (like drinking too much vanilla). You are left after reading this considering the author as both very strong and very weak, given how events have unfolded in her life. Her focus here seems to be on relationships with friends, daughters, and dogs. Her marriages didn’t seem to last, so you don’t see as much of that here in the analysis. I enjoyed the audiobook version – it was a nice and calming narration that allowed for personal reflection through comparison.

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