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msmichaela's Reviews (546)


Feels a bit like a retread of the themes in the Neapolitan novels… all the self-hating internal monologue gets tiresome. 

Perfect vacation read, even though the ending wasn’t quite what I had hoped for. 

Not a perfect memoir — Woolf tends to get real lofty and abstract — but one that happened to be very close to some life circumstances of mine. Woolf writes with searing honesty about marriage, death, sex and parenting in a way I haven’t experienced before. 

Meh. Mildly amusing novel about the travails of one percenters. I was really irritated by the attempt to redeem all of them in the last quarter of the novel—it rings very hollow. 

Wow, did I love this memoir about grief, beauty, sex, dogs and pretty much everything else. Braitman is so clear-eyed about herself. Just a really incredibly meaningful book. 

Slow, meandering, repetitive. Would have been a great long essay. 

Formally inventive, gorgeously written, eternally questioning both writer and reader. A stunning memoir. 

Compelling novel, though it doesn’t quite match up to The Great Believers. 

Pleasant novel about friendship in the early 90s. 

Deeply unsettling and beautifully written.