Sex and the City book review

Nobody knows about the sex lives of other people, but Candace Bushnell was either making it up or writing about it, and she calls this fiction. We all fell in love with them. Keep reading to find out what book I'm talking about today. Hey, y'all, I am Kyla Denanyoh, and today, we're talking all about business ownership, being a freelancer, and sex and the city. 

Today, we're talking about the book Sex and the City. The author of the book is Candace Bushnell. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is literature. Okay, I found out about this book years ago. I went to the library, picked up season five of Sex and the City, and started watching it. And then I started from the beginning, and I'm blown away. So I had to read the original because I re-watched Sex and the City multiple times yearly. The character development is phenomenal. I go through different things, and then I love other characters. One time, I loved Charlotte; the next time, I loved Samantha,  and I loved Miranda all the time. 

So I picked up the book and read it, and it's very good. For one, I listened to the audiobook, and Cynthia Nixon, the actress who plays Miranda, narrates the book, so it's funny to hear Miranda's voice the whole time. But this book is just like the show. Sentences are lifted directly from the book and put into the show. A lot of the small quips that Stanford says are from the book. Seasons one and two are especially heavy on picking up dialogue directly from the book and putting it into the show. Then this is 2024 when I'm recording, so I'm okay to tell you that I've already watched the spinoff And Just Like That, and you still get to see subject lines from this book. This book will always be relevant because this is the original.

So, my favorite thing from this book is all of Carrie's friendships. Unlike the show, the book revolves around Carrie and everyone she knows. It's not always her and Charlotte and her and Miranda and her and Samantha or the four of them. I see why they would have gravitated to having four women. Let them be different in their professions, with their looks, and with a love interest. In the book, it's just Carrie talking to everybody, right? So you get to see a little bit more of Carrie's interactions with Skipper, and a bit more of a broader depth of the city. This could have just been called Carrie in the City because it's Carrie, and then all of her experiences within the city, her friendships, her dating, her love, and all of that. So I loved it, I loved it. And I love reading the book after watching the show multiple times. 

I wonder if Candace Bushnell was involved in the creation of the book. I know on the show it always says based on the novel by Candace Bushnell, but it was great. And imagine that your book from '96 would spark this show from 1999, which would turn into six and a half seasons, and then 20 years later, another spinoff because we missed the characters. It's fun to pick up the book, read it, and see why it was such a craze. Right in the 90s, I was still a child. I was in middle school, so I had no idea what this was like. I had never been to New York, so seeing New York from those eyes was completely different because I knew it from the show. But even to take you back to the beginning, my introduction to the characters was when they were in a different place. 

I hope this has inspired you to go and pick up the book. So many incredible shows are based on books, and Sex and the City is one of them. And so, would I reread this? Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. I even love that it's a cute little paperback. I can see people sitting on the subway reading this or throwing it in their purses when heading somewhere in New York. I'm sure everybody was like obsessed with it because nobody knows about the sex lives of other people, but Candace Bushnell was either making it up or writing about it, and she calls this fiction, and we all fell in love with it, alright. If you enjoyed this review, consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel.

Until the next book review, Kyla