Girls of a Certain Age

"I don't like how impressed guys are with themselves when their lines work, as if girls are idiots, as if we don't know what's going on." It's a collection of 13 dark short stories telling about the different lives of different women showing their dark sides, things they cannot handle, their insecuri......more

Mid. I truly don't have anything else to say I'm not gonna write a long review for this.......more

This was a really interesting book. I loved the premise of the short stories and the snapshots of different women/girls' lives, just a tiny glimpse was enough. I stopped about halfway through and thought, "this book is sad." And it was, intentional or not I don't know, but as I read this book about......more

Since this was a collection of short stories, some were better than others, so I wanted to rank each one in this review before summing up my feelings in total. (Purposefully vague to avoid spoilers.) “Only the Good” — 2.5/5. Evocative imagery and appropriately bleak, but it left me wanting more. I fe......more

In turns mundane, nostalgic, and heartbreaking, this collection of stories delivered on it's promises. These beautifully written, evocative stories are heartbreaking in the sheer humanity, and lack of humanity, they depict. From a young girl who finds her friend's Tamagotchi completely frivolous, to......more