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mirandacactusreads's review against another edition
4.0
This was fun to read. A short, sweet love letter to living in the Midwest! I liked the small anecdotes and sometimes the way they were written even felt like poetry.
rehughes12's review against another edition
3.0
It really was fine. I wasn’t compelled to keep picking it up. It has lots of fun stories about Chicago, which bring me joy. And I like that all of the “chapters” or entries are short. But, I’m not sure if it will be a favorite of mine.
kaelynmerrithew's review against another edition
1.0
I had high hopes for this book, but not a single vignette/journal entry made me feel anything. Maybe if I was from Chicago, I’d get it, but from an outsiders point of view this book was just lacklustre and self-indulgent.
twentysixarias's review against another edition
3.0
I was looking forward to this book, but I just couldn't connect with it. Stopped at 30% on my Kindle. I want to say it was because I don't have much of a connection with Chicago or the places she was talking about. I think I expected this book to be much more similar to one of Anthony Bourdain's books (for some reason?), where she's talks about her years in Chicago but weaves characters throughout and discusses the different places with significance, but describing them to the readers who haven't seen them themselves. She didn't do that, so I didn't cling on to what she was saying.
kaelynmerrithew's review
1.0
I had high hopes for this book, but not a single vignette/journal entry made me feel anything. Maybe if I was from Chicago, I’d get it, but from an outsiders point of view this book was just lacklustre and self-indulgent.