Review: obscure, perhaps far too much so
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2012
I picked up the book simply because it looked far different from the norm - and I was drawn to the title.  It took me nearly 3 weeks to finish this book of 260 or so pages. A record slow read for me. It didn't excite me to read it, I found the characters to be rather self-absorbed and mired within that self-proclaimed obscurity.  Sad, because the premise of a girl/woman with a general dissatisfaction in her life and no real impetus to make change is a great premise. But, while others will (and do I am sure) say that they got to know the characters "intimately", to me it felt like listening in on a therapy session. When they were all mixed up.The writing is well crafted, I just didn't appreciate the skill as I couldn't connect at all with the story or the characters. The story was too choppy, as if we were being treated to a stop motion flip book into sections of her life: but it also didn't work for me as a memoir. I can't define where it fell apart for me, but perhaps it was that it felt like that book that you are assigned to read because "you should".It certainly wasn't the book for me, I've tried twice to pick it up again and give it another read without success.