His profile was charming and funny, but not in a way that said I’m funny, laugh at my jokes, even though he was a comedy writer and was thus professional-level funny and good at jokes. No photos of him with fish, or doing shirtless headstands, or in front of a microphone. He was holding a guitar in one of the photos. He had a handsome, friendly face, a really nice smile, big brown eyes.

I had a theory that when you deleted Tinder and then re-downloaded it, it gave you “better” options than it might have previously, and one of the first guys who popped up was a guy named Matt who looked kind of familiar. In a world of 30 Under 30 lists, this book is a welcome reminder that it's okay to live life at your own speed.My auspicious tarot card draw notwithstanding, I was reenergized about getting back on the apps.

Thanks for Waiting is about how achieving the milestones you thought were so important don't always happen on the time line you imagined. She writes about everything from dating to infertility, to how friendships evolve as you get older, to why being pregnant at forty-one is unexpectedly freeing-all with the goal of appreciating the lives we've lived so far and the lives we still hope to live. Now, in her debut memoir, Shafrir explores the enormous pressures we feel, especially as women, to hit particular milestones at certain times and how we can redefine what it means to be a late bloomer. And while she was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed, she didn't find professional fulfillment until she co-launched the successful self-care podcast Forever35-at forty. After a long fertility struggle, she became a first-time mom at forty-one, joining Mommy & Me classes where most of the other moms were at least ten years younger. She was an intern at twenty-nine and met her husband on Tinder in her late thirties, after many of her friends had already gotten married, started families, and entered couples' counseling. An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected ' Thanks for Waiting is the loving, wise, cuttingly funny older sister we all need in book form.'-Tara Schuster, author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies Doree Shafrir spent much of her twenties and thirties feeling out of sync with her peers.

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