We Should Hang Out Sometime

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, A True Story

By Josh Sundquist

An autobiographical account of coming of age as an amputee cancer survivor, Paralympic ski racer, YouTube star, and motivational speaker.

Josh Sundquist only ever had one girlfriend, for twenty-three hours, in eighth grade.  Why was Josh single?  To find out he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked them straight up: What went wrong?  The results of Josh's semi-scientific investigation are captured here.

This is a realistic, yet awkward, story of Josh's experiences.  I did enjoy his use of graphs and illustrations, but the whole premise of the book is based on a grown man hunting down his ex-girlfriends and demanding to know why they broke up with him. I thought that was a little bit creepy.

Josh has been through some hard experiences in his life, cancer as a young boy, having to lose his leg all the way to his hip joint, also being home schooled until ninth grade seems to have contributed to his awkward social skills. On the plus side you can tell, through his writing, that Josh does care deeply for others and is very aware of their feelings. I kept wondering why a popular motivational speaker was so awkward in his social life.

This is a fast read and it did make me laugh a couple of times. We Should Hang Out Sometime can be found in the non-fiction section of the library.