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read_outside_the_box's review against another edition
4.0
Un dessin et une écriture simples, exactement ce qu'il faut pour donner le ton à cette histoire, soit celle d'une jeune femme dans la mi-vingtaine pas encore tout à fait adulte qui cherche, tout en humour et en cynisme, à trouver sa place dans une New-York immense.
raesock's review against another edition
3.0
This is the kind of book I usually love, but it is definitely “from another time.” The R word was used to mean “lame” and “stupid” several times, and I really cringed at “I’m tired of apologizing for being white.” Oof!
aliceboule's review against another edition
4.0
I read this while I was in New York and it was the perfect book to do that with. Wertz captures the harshness of New York and the beauty. A wonderful book with an excellent foreword! I would recommend this to my friends
thepaige_turner's review against another edition
4.0
It made me laugh and who can't like a book like that? Full(er) review to come later.
christiana's review against another edition
3.0
Julia Wertz is right around my age, so I saw a little of my early 20s in this graphic novel (crappy jobs, graduating from college but trying to figure out the rest of your life, etc.). She has some sadness in her life, but I feel like she does a better job than most of making the most of what's happening and trying to see the entertaining funny side of it.
papertraildiary's review against another edition
4.0
Very funny, though I felt kinda weird reading this at the same time Julia was moving back to California from NYC. I wish her all the best and hope she writes a book about it :D
melinichole's review against another edition
5.0
I loved it. Kind of felt like the story of my life circa 2005 lol
tsel's review against another edition
5.0
You can feel the passion and authenticity within each individual page. I found myself getting lost within the sketches of the apartments, relating to the main character in both her successes and her struggles, and ultimately discovered a person whose story I deeply resonate with and I'm so thankful for this medium because of that.
unladylike's review against another edition
1.0
I normally love graphic memoirs like this, I really do. But the banality of Julia Wertz's boring existence just made me wonder why anyone thought her days were worth being chronicled and published. The only virtue to this book I could think of would be possibly helping someone else out of a slump of alcohol-induced depression. It might sound egotistical, but I have more interesting adventures, introspections, and random encounters with strangers on the street on just about any given day than Wertz had in this entire collection combined.
mary_sh's review against another edition
4.0
4 stelline su 5 perchè nonostante non lo ritenga un capolavoro nè dal punto di vista della scrittura nè dal punto di vista grafico, mi ha tenuto compagnia e mi ha permesso di immedesimarmi ed empatizzare molto con la protagonista/scrittrice (essendo un graphic novel autobiografico), mentre vive la sua "crisi dei 25 anni", che era proprio quello che mi aspettavo da questo fumetto.