MixedThe New York Times Book Review[The] you-gotta-laugh-or-you-cry place is where Candace Bushnell, with her usual sparkling candor, begins Is There Still Sex in the City? ... It’s not easy to recreate the magic formula of an epoch-defining best seller. Bushnell gives it her best shot, sprinkling her trademark acronyms and nicknames like comedy confetti ... She is funny on \'cubbing\' ... and on \'MAM\' (middle-aged madness, which Bushnell claims is the female version of the male midlife crisis). Any woman in that age bracket, however, will recognize the thunderous mood-swings as symptoms of that state the author is so weirdly reluctant to mention ... At the end, there is tragedy for one of the women in the Village group. But we have hardly learned their names, let alone their characters, so the emotional impact is dulled. Bushnell, who is better at hilarious than heartfelt, has found happiness ... As for the answer to the book’s title, there isn’t a whole lot of sex in the city, but there is companionship, which would have appalled Carrie Bradshaw — but what did she and her shoe collection know?
Pamela Druckerman
RaveThe New York Times\"How does it feel to have your sexual currency depreciate that abruptly — and what stock, if any, can replace it? There has been remarkably little good writing about this thorny topic but here, with excellent timing, comes Pamela Druckerman’s pitch-perfect and brutally frank There Are No Grown-Ups ... quick switches in tone work to memorable effect ... Druckerman is the heir to her impish, unembarrassable spirit and adorable storytelling. There Are No Grown-Ups loses its way at times, but there is so much to enjoy, especially for those who need a little help feeling \'bien dans son age,\' or wearing their age comfortably. Let’s hope it marks a bold new chapter for older women in society — the forgotten and the madam’ed.\
