By Jovanna Brinck
Courier Columnist
Josh Sundquist is a relatively famous YouTuber with over 200,000 subscribers. He also is a motivational speaker and is always going to different schools and organizations and talking to people about his life. What makes Josh so likeable to his audience is his ability to take awkward personal experiences and use them to give advice to people.
Josh has always had bad luck in his love life, in which he talks about in short videos on his YouTube channel. It wasn’t until Josh met Miss America 2010 and unintentionally insulted her about her love life that he thought about writing a book about his own horrible experiences with dating.
In his book, Josh describes each potential relationship he has ever been in, starting from seventh grade up until his mid twenties, and analyzes what went wrong that didn’t make it work out. To find answers to his hypothesis, Josh goes to every girl that he has ever tried to be romantically involved with to ask them why it didn’t work out. This extremely awkward act, is met with even more awkward answers.
Some of the results of his experiment leave Josh with a lot of closure about his relationships. Others, not so much. Each story, however, is both hilarious and heartwarming. Although different from one another, each story ends in the same result, Josh did nothing wrong to make the relationship not work.
What makes this book different from a lot of others is that it’s non-fiction, and all encounters recorded into this book are completely real. That being said, in some cases, there was no closure as to what happened that made the relationship go wrong, but this is only because that is how real life is with relationships, also.
I think this social experiment Josh did was very funny and original. The book was both easy to read and understand. This is definitely one of my favorite non-fiction books I have ever read, because it was so relatable to what a lot of people go through in relationships, no matter what age.
This book is not only for anyone who has ever had trouble with dating or is afraid to get out into the dating world. As Sundquist says, this book is for anyone who “wonders what’s wrong with them” because they’ll soon learn that “answer is nothing.”
