Book Review: The Roommate Book

Book: The Roommate Book: Sharing Lives & Slapping Fives written and illustrated by Becky Simpson

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

In The Roommate Book, which is filled with whimsical drawings and quizzes, author/illustrator and expert roommate Becky Simpson uses her optimism and sense of humor to highlight the advantages of having a roommate and how best to enjoy these shared years of modular furniture, crockpot meals, and binge-watching Netflix. For high school graduates going off to college and new adults leaving college, this book is essential.

The Roommate Book is all about celebrating this short season of life. It’s the time between parental curfews and settling down with a significant other. It is for the single and proud, silly and crafty, witty and thrifty. It’s a non-serious look at how to live with a friend (or total stranger). Nuggets of wisdom are included, but so are comical pie charts, hypotheticals, illustrations, and brief essays. This book invites passersby to thumb through and stay a while.

Meet your roommate:  The Random, The BFF, The Bra-less & Lawless, The "I've never actually seen my roommate," The "We get along but we're not really friends," The Enemy, The Frenemy, The Platonic Opposite Sex, or The Faux Partner.  Use the "Should I Live with This Person" flow chart to help you choose.

This fun and functional book also includes:  The "Should I eat this without asking?" flow chart, the top 10 reasons it's awesome to have a roommate, the pet peeve awareness illustrated guide, the Eisenhower matrix for chores (important, urgent, not important, not urgent), the guide to creating nicknames, party and prank ideas, and so much more!



Rating: 3 stars

Review:

This was okay, it's a cute sort of guide book for enjoying the whole roommate situation. Reading this felt like I was reading one of those special Roommate Editions of a magazine (such as Seventeen or Cosmopolitan). In the book there are plenty of quizzes, suggestions, advice and fun things to do that should interest the reader.

I think this would be great for those who actually enjoy having roommates or want to make the best of the situation. I for one, never liked having roommates, so I'm not sure what benefit those of us who share that sentiment will get out of this book. I guess you could probably apply the advice to other areas in your life such as in your friendships or dating and being in relationships. I do think the illustrations were cute.

But as for cultivating a relationship with roommates if you're not a roommate sort of person nothing is probably going make you want to spend more time with them. No matter how cute this book is. As I said this is more for those who embrace the idea of having roommates and want to get the most out of it.