susanna kaysen's new book

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the camera my mother gave me is a very quick read.

*i liked it because it was brutally honest in the way that makes you think, this person is always this honest. it has gotten her in pickles before, but it's not even a choice. this is who she is.

*i liked it because she's open to doctor's suggestions, but then re-evaluates them for herself. she wont do something just because a doctor says she should.

*i liked it because she is as brutal and forth right about herself as she is about others.

*i liked it because it is matter of fact about the vagina, which much as one attmepts to be, is still sometimes hard (vagina, vagina, vagina).

*i like how she writes. it's friendly to read.

**i didn't like it because there isn't enough material, enough story, to really get a hold on.

**i didn't like it because even though it seems natural and organic to not have a wrapped up, now everything is fine ending, it also left me turning the page going, "wait, is that it?"