A review by christinecomito
Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman

2.0

I think the author turned this book into her publisher who handed it straight to the printer without proofreading/editing it. I really enjoyed one of Waxman's other books, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, (Nina was also in this book) but I do not recall any of the weird/lame dialogue and actions in that book that come up in this book. I had a hard time getting to the story (which was ok, nothing terrific) behind such sentences as "she made a tongue-clicking noise, presumably by clicking her tongue" or "She walked into the kitchen, and there, as if by magic, but really only by the United States Postal Service, she found a large cardboard box on the kitchen table." And a character called Libby, who was actually Jay Libby, but everyone called him Libby, so that chapters later when "he" did something I had to go back and see if Libby was a man, because he was a rather minor character and I couldn't remember and I thought it was a typo.