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The Twenty-Six Year Old Virgin

Losing It by Emma Rathbone

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I’m a sucker for coming of age stories, and I’ve read and watched a lot of them, but the premise for this one brings an unexpected combination of things: A woman in her mid-twenties, formerly a collegiate swimmer, can’t figure out her life so she moves to SEC-country to live with a plate-painting aunt and to lose her virginity. It goes ok. The protagonist is Julia Greenfield, the kind of character that might live in Stars Hollow or the dorm in Undeclared. She’s drifting through […]

One Flew Over the Catcher’s Rye

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I know about this author because she worked at bars and restaurants in my girlfriend’s college town. And so when her second novel came out this summer, we went to a reading. The second novel was pretty good. A little light, but otherwise interesting. I also really like sour, not super likeable narrators. So this story, then, which is a richer novel in general, and has a sympathetic but considerably malcontent narrator works for me. In addition, since this is about teenage boy in a […]

Maybe You’re A Virgin Because You’re A Jerk?

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I’ll just start this off by saying that I didn’t like this book…at all.  I was sucked in by Amazon’s statement, “for readers of Rainbow Rowell and Maria Semple” who like offbeat characters and subtle humor or some such nonsense.  It’s 100% not funny.  Not even once did I giggle or even crack a smile while reading this book.  No, dear friends, do not fall for this at all because it’s simply not true, the main character is not funny–she’s a nightmare and nothing she’s […]



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