The Day I Wore My Panties Inside Out

Book 12 of my 2025 Reading Challenge

read from January 19 - 24

The Day I Wore My Panties Inside Out by Jen Tucker

published 2011

Summary (via Goodreads)

Some days are better than others. Have you ever had one of those days where you felt like you just could not catch a break? Author Jen Tucker had one of those and shares every bit of it in her new memoir, The Day I Wore my Panties Inside Out with humor and a bit of sass.

My Opinion

2 stars

This is a low 2 stars but I wasn't comfortable rating it 1 star because I'm finally reading this after it's been on my 'to-read' list since early 2013.  My interests have changed a lot in 12 years and I know I wouldn't have picked this book up if I'd seen it for the first time today so I'm not going to completely ding the author for writing something I didn't enjoy.  But I also don't think my opinion should be dismissed because I do enjoy "mommy blogger" content sometimes even if I don't seek it out so there was potential for me to like this.  Unfortunately, I just didn't.

This was also unexpectedly religious which isn't my jam.  Talking about God doesn't bother me, especially in a memoir because that's her path, but when it intersects with medical diagnoses and treatments it makes me uncomfortable.  Again, just my personal feelings so I'm not going to 1 star it but there were no indications faith was a strong factor in her life so I'm going to point it out as a reader that was surprised.

And as long as I'm being nitpicky, the wrong "too/to" was used more than once along with other grammatical errors.  I think you can tell that I was skimming most of the time so if I noticed it as a casual reader, an editor should've too.