Title: Mildly amusing
Review: Cynthia Kaplan is a talented writer, but she's nowhere close to being "the female David Sedaris." Her writing style is nice, and her essay on her grandmother's Alzheimner's is beautiful. Mostly, though, she is too self-conscious and whiny to be funny. You don't have to be completely comfy with all your flaws to be funny about them, but you do have to be honest. The way Kaplan pokes fun at herself seems false, because it's clear that at the end of the day she still wants the reader to think of her as the cleverest girl in class.
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