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Title: Drivel
Review: I suspect Meghan Daum makes a good journalist, though I haven't read her autobiography or any of her non-fiction articles. She puts a good sentence together and has a good eye for human foibles. Unfortunately, none of this makes her a good novelist. This book was not in the slightest compelling. The main character was too cliche to be interesting and the other characters drawn too superficially to be interesting either. Much of the book centered around her crazy love for an unlikely type -- unfortunately, we never had any idea what she liked about him. Or him about her. The plot? It was more like a three-sentence pitch for a movie. The writing: adept. I hate not finishing books once I've started them but this one was hard to trudge through. About half way through I started skimming.
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