About the Book
When Nina Mistry’s life hits rock bottom, she decides to change her stars by falling in love…with herself—a hilarious, heartfelt story from outrageously funny novelist Radhika Sanghani.
Nina didn’t plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pajamas, locked in a holding cell. There’s no Wi-Fi, no wine, no carbs—and no one to celebrate with.
Unfortunately, it gives Nina plenty of time to reflect on how screwed up her life is. She’s just broken up with her fiancé, and now has to move back into her childhood home to live with her depressed older brother and their uptight, traditional Indian mother. Her career as a freelance journalist isn’t going in the direction she wants, and all her friends are too busy being successful to hang out with her.
Just as Nina falls into despair, a book lands in her cell: How to Fix Your Shitty Life by Loving Yourself. It must be destiny. With literally nothing left to lose, Nina makes a life-changing decision to embark on a self-love journey. By her next birthday, she’s going to find thirty things she loves about herself.
My Review
Every so often, a novel comes along that moves me in such a way that I feel I need to tell everyone about it. 30 Things I Love About Myself was that kind of novel. A bit of an unconventional rom com – more focused on falling in love with yourself rather than another person – I adored Nina’s story from beginning to end. I was inspired while reading to really sit and think with myself and my journal – what do I love about myself? And just like Nina struggled in the beginning, as did I. I took my own journey along with her while reading – asking family and friends around me what they thought were my strong suits, continuing to look inside myself, applaud myself for the good and give myself grace for what I thought I could work on. I closed the final page feeling incredibly inspired, motivated, and a certain peace with myself. As someone who is going through a divorce, a cross-country move and starting a new business, I often think of my flaws first, my failures, what could have been. This was such a timely read for me and one that I felt deeply connected to. Not only did Nina begin her own self-love journey, she starts to understand more about astrology and yoga, two areas that I enjoy and love to learn about as well. With the addition of learning about another culture different from my own and the lovely quotes and reminders sprinkled in throughout, this easily became a favorite read of 2022.
5 stars
