The Rules Do Not Apply (Review)

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

Hardcover, 207 pages

Published March 14th 2017 by Random House

Genre: Memoir/Nonfiction

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5

I’m going to start by saying that memoirs are one of my most favorite types of literature. I love how funny and raw they can be, and how they connect the human race through stories of shared experiences.

This memoir did nothing but make me fall in love with the genre all over again.

Ariel Levy, a writer for The New Yorker, believed that she was to be a writer from birth. From being an assistant at New York Magazine — to landing her first article — to becoming a journalist for one of the most beloved magazines in the world — she became a writer.

Levy picks you up and shows you what it means to find yourself in this world even when life doesn’t play by the rules.

The Rules Do Not Apply is a book of love, loss, and strength. I read this book in three days, and I cried the whole way through.

What’s tough about memoirs is that you need to be able to connect with the author to appreciate their life story, (usually).

While I am not a journalist or a mother, through her eloquently told story, I was able to connect and lose myself in her words.

Buy this book, rent it from your local library, download the audiobook…whatever format you fancy; but you have to hear this story.

This is a story I won’t soon forget, and I’m not sure that I want to.