A review by mpatshi
The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits

As a writer of diaries myself I really wanted to like this book.

It started out so funny and I was glad to be reading it but after a couple of chapters of 'Today I ....' I just couldn't care less about what was coming.
I started to really dislike the author and I needed to just stop reading before I got angry at a person I've never met ,who just wrote down a bunch of personal stories.

To me, many of the stories she wrote down are the kind of stories you tell your friends, or you use them to entertain new people you just met in a bar, they are fun that way... they are just not interesting enough to be put in a book, well written or not.