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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sort of stuck 1/4 of the way into City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. It was sort of fun in the beginning, but the characters are pretty shallow and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.  If folks like/hated it, please feel free to vote on whether it's worth continuing.

On the other side of the spectrum, I am also stuck about 2 "chapters" in to Olive Kitteridge and disliking the "short story"-esque format though I've liked other books by the author (Lucy Barton). Inertia alone may lead to DNF (at least in the short term).[/quote]

Okay, I've finished City of Girls, which became much better after--  I don't think this is a spoiler but here's a warning anyway ... ... ... ...  a turning point midway through the protagonist's narrative. Weirdly, I found the first half, the supposedly razzle-dazzle theater world part, pretty tiresome, and it should have been cut by 30%+.

I've also started "Sandwich." By Catherine Newman, who I was surprised to realize wrote a "new Mom" blog** that I read like a million years ago when my DCs were babies. I'm enjoying the book but I can't tell how much that is because of my own nostalgia for those days and her earlier "work"-- which incidentally, is sort of a theme of the book as well.

**Obviously, she was a gifted writer even back then but her style was somewhat overwrought with metaphor and figurative language and I recall always thinking "jeez, this is really someone who could use a good editor!" Well, dear reader, I think she found one![/quote]

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