Is there still Sex in the City? What a great title - and what a very fun book; I love Candace Bushnell's tell-all, humorous, honest open style of storytelling. The first book, Sex and the City was published in 1997 as a kind of tell-all story from her years as a columnist for the New York Observer; the stories eventually became the basis for the smash series with the same title. Candace and her friends were in the prime of their lives; mid-30's, taking Manhattan by storm. Now it's around 20 years later, and is there still sex in the city? Candace tells of she and her friends entering back into the dating world of New York City, but with a middle aged slant, and things are vastly different than they were previously. Dating in the younger, current world has become more about online hook-ups, less emotional attachment, but Candace and her crowd, despite their past success are ultimately still looking for love; it's just a vastly different picture and playing field.

Candace explores the world of divorce after long marriages, dating through the Tinder app, upper east side living, MAM (middle aged madness), MNB's (my new boyfriend), of friendship, love, exploration, loss, and even death. I found myself - in my own MAM, comparing my life from the 90's until now. Carrie/Candace lived in a world I did not experience, but Candace, today, lives in a world similar to my own. I could find myself relating and nodding my head in agreement.

The question in the title was never really answered, but it seems to me that finding sex in the city is not the real question anyway. Finding and appreciating one's self in this expanding world is. Thank you, Candace for writing this book that allows the reader to realize we are not alone in how we feel; how we work, love, live, and play.

Candace Bushnell is the expert, the ultimate queen for many women who watched and admired Sex and the City. She is always funny, witty and clever. In this book she questions the life style for women in their 50s and 60s and asks whether there is still fun and sexiness for them by portraying different types of men who are available for the middle aged women to date. This book does not revolve around a story, but it reminded me of the first season of SATC where Carrie gives examples from her friends’ lives and makes her point. There are no characters written in depth in this book, but I don’t think that was ever the intention. We get to hear a lot of stories from different women’s experiences. The only thing that bothered me that Candace Bushnell made me feel like she does not value herself enough or is not valued enough by her friends. She is the damn queen of SATC that influenced a generation. She should not be worrying about men, her appearance, her financial situation and all that. But she does... maybe that’s why her observations are so great.
Thank you Netgalley and Grove Atlantic for an ARC.

I never watch Sex in the City, but had friends who did. Had no idea is was based on anything, actually, until I saw this book. Given I'm in Ms. Bushnell's age bracket, I thought I'd check it out. Nope. Nothing new here. It seems to be all about what every middle aged woman and up has been experiencing. Men we meet are looking for mostly someone to care for them or someone to support them, In some cases, someone to help support previous wives and still growing kids. No thanks. I'll stay single. Fans will likely enjoy the book. At least it may let them know what they are in for. It's a summer beach vacation read in my opinion. Well written, entertainment.

It was fabulous to be reading Candace again. I have loved all her previous books and have missed her writing... and I love how, once again, she is honest and open about dating and romance. Once again she is also resetting the narrative and taking away the stigma of writing about relationships with women who are slightly older and I think the publication of this book will spark lots of lovely articles about later life love. Brilliant!

Is There Still Sex in the City is a funny narrative on the What Happens Next aspect of personal relationships, and whether we are ever too old or too over it to play the game again. I loved the stories of escapades and ‘cubbing’.

Candace Bushnell is back, and she is great more than ever. This book is absolutely fabulous, a real help for women over 50. Okay, maybe not all of us are great looking and with a great wardrobe like her and her friends, but as in SNTC she makes us dream. We COULD be fabulous like her and her friends, and be able to tackle all kinds of possible boyfriends we happen to meet. We just have to relax, sip a Martini and read every single page looking for tips - not about the best seduction ways but about how to restart, to keep in mind the mistakes and delusions of the past without allowing them to rule our present. She had a divorce, and of course we can't help to think If a woman like that divorced, how can we pretend to have the same partner forever? She shows us her fears, making us stronger and fearless. Mrs Bushnell, thank you very much for this really empowering book.

Such a funny and upfront take on dating and friendships after the big 5 0! I laughed and loved this book and the writing.

For those of you looking for the further adventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda this is not your story. In this short yet sweet read by writer Candace Bushnell does she take us along for the further adventures she experienced after …. Sex and the city. For those of you who do not know she did write a column called “Sex and the City” in the 1990s and found her Mr. Big. However, unlike Carrie, she did not marry him but remained single. In “Is there still sex in the city” does she speak from her experience as she became a single woman after a decade married and had to navigate being single as a middle-aged woman. As always, she is surrounded by a strong cohort of Women who helps her navigate her life whether married or single as they are showcased memorably. As in “Sex and the City” the novel features her experience and those of her friends in separate anecdotes. While reading this novel I feel it took a while for I to connect with the story for at least 35% of the novel had past and I did not. I find her commentary on marriage, children, divorce, and grief to be interesting but not compelling. To what she expressed she has done before and I believe I wanted to hear her personal thoughts on these beliefs than how they were expressed through others. The final 30% of the novel was touching, personal and revealed the woman underneath whom we expect Candace Bushnell to be. For she is no Carrie Bradshaw but rather a modern woman simply living life by her rules. To believe that in 2019 this would STILL be revolutionary is appalling but is simply a representation on alternative ways of living. I only wish we could have been shown what that looked like a little bit more. I thank Netgalley for an advanced readers copy and recommend this to fans of Sex and the City, and other works by her. This is expected to be released August 5th, 2019. I give this book 3.5 stars out of five.

I was interested in this book because of the tv show. I hadn't read any of her other novels, which was probably a bad idea.

I was hoping for something fun and inspiring as I enter my own 40s and look to life as a mature woman. Sadly, this book was okay. I didn't dislike it but I was disappointed. The stories by themselves were interesting and enjoyable but combined together in a book, the stories didn't flow and seemed disjointed. And some of the stories were depressing in a men are dogs kind of way and romance is dead. I was hoping for something more.....

I received an advanced reader copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for an ARC of Candace Bushnell's newest work.

Candace Bushnell of Sex and the City fame returns with a new semi autobiographical look at life and love after divorce in the City. She tackles tinder, face creams that cost more then a car, cougars and cubs and all things that make up middle age divorcees.

I love Bushnell's writing style and for fans of SATC they will be quite very familiar with her. The novel is told in a series of essays full of her trademarked quick wit and humor. Some of the topics felt a little over done, the woman who doesn't get tinder, the divorcee being taken advantage of by a younger man. This is a fun read but its missing some of the original's sizzle.

So, a super depressing take on Sex and the City. I like Candace Bushnell's work but this one wasn't a fun read.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

I have read a couple of books by this author. I have never read Sex in the City, but adored the HBO show. The book gods must have been feeling generous because my request for this book was accepted. At the end I was a bit bored. I found I read the book more for the author than for the actual content

This book was not what I thought. I loved Sex and the City. I just don’t know if I was the right audience for the book.

I’ll state my bias up front I’m a huge Candace Bushnell fan and a huge sex and the city fan so aIm definitely the target audience for this book. Read this in one day it was like a long awaited visit with old friends . I would highly recommend this book. I was graciously provided this book by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I just finished ‘is the still Sex in the city?’ And I just loved it.

I’ve grown up reading a lot of Chick Lit but Sex and the City has always been more than that to me. While I was obsessed with the show, i’ve Always loved how different the books were and this one doesn’t disappoint.

We’re back discussing our favorite topic -relationship- but this time around, everyone is 50 years old or more. From dating (much) you get boys to getting divorced or deciding that companionship rather than love should be the way to go, it was fun and awfully interesting to see how love, dating & relationships are different as you get older.

This is a fresh take on an old favorite and I am glad to have been able to read it early!

Out of an abundance of nostalgia for my New York City days, I recently rewatched every season of Sex and the City and discovered how much it held up. Not all of it, of course, but the show captured a lot about the New York experience that is timeless. I was so excited to get to read an advance copy of Candace Bushnell's new book, and I loved every page. Her stories of aging, friendships and dating changing are funny, poignant and relatable. Highly recommend to anyone who was a fan of the series or her other books-- readers of Nora Ephron will likely enjoy too.

This was a good quick, beach-type read. I loved the show and book series for Sex in the City, and Candace Bushnell still has that witty tone and easy-to-read style. Would recommend to other women who enjoy a silly, quick read in between some heavier genres at times.

This is a book about women still stuck in a bygone era. They get familiar with Tinder, the Mona Lisa method and cubbing, but they did not aquire wisdom through time.

The characters only define themselves in terms of a relationship. They have no depth, no real issues as women have in real life. Shopping in Madison World fits all the clichés about the lifestyle. Their lives are a cliché. They are carbon copies of each other.

Then came the part about playing house with Sam and his kid for the camping holiday in her backyard, where Candace became a bit more real, more human. But not real enough to mention the boy's name until they have left. I'm not sure if I was disappointed in the characters or the book itself.

I found it peculiar that the writer made herself a character in the book. I simply can't believe that this is the same writer that wrote Sex and the city. The characters did just not have the depth needed, they all stayed one-dimensional throughout.

A light read for a lazy winter's day.

Who is the target market for this book? I'm not sure if middle aged women will identify with it, where characters in this day and age still define themselves in terms of a relationship with a man, and their whole lives revolve around it. Young women might find the characters a bit pathetic.

Is There Still Sex in the City?'s storyline is vastly different than the HBO series or the first Sex and the City book, but Candance Bushnell's familiar writing style and her razor sharp sense of humor definitely shine here. For me, reading Candace's work feels like catching up with an old friend. It invokes nostalgia, and it's very entertaining and funny.

New York City plays a central character in this book, and it's one of the reasons that I like it. The writing makes me feel as though I'm right there in this unique, diverse, energetic, exciting city. I have always wanted to live in New York, and the story has me living vicariously.

If you're hoping for this book to be a continuation of Sex and the City and its characters, you'll be disappointed. This book fast-forwards twenty years from the original SATC setting and the author reflects on the ups and downs of sex, dating, relationships after fifty in the fast paced NYC life through snippets and commentary. These topics might seem depressing, but there is a lot of humor injected throughout and the story is very entertaining. There are many LOL moments.

The book also covers kids, marriage, divorce and death, and the pressures on women to look youthful and do cosmetic surgery. 40+ women might feel vulnerable to the situations mentioned, and relate to the trials and tribulations in the book. I definitely learned some new terms and was educated on the latest enhancement procedures.

The book has short stories, facts, statistics, and social commentary. Feminists will appreciate it. It's not for everyone, but the target audience will find it a very entertaining, funny, quick read.

Jesus, It’s Not Tales From the Crypt: YES, There is Still Sex in the City

What do the entitled and divorced do when they grow older? Own three places to live, complain about money, and talk about sex and their friends (including a RHNY) with coded names. Sex in the City author Candice Bushnell’s latest memoir is more like her first (and best) than any of the novels in between (which are good!) but maybe she should have let sleeping Standard Poodles lie--she got the MNB (my new boyfriend) and a place in the country, what else does she want?

Wendy Ward
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