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Title: Poorly Recycled from Memoir
Review: I read Ms. O'Faolin's memoir "Are You Somebody?" before picking up "My Dream of You, only to find it was the same grim story recycled and re-packaged as a novel.The story follows a travel writer - who is uninspired by travel -through her various failed relationships, including those she sabatoged herself, to the stage where she is gracelessly aging and grasping for all that life has not handed her on a platter. It seems the best thing about this character is her wardrobe, since for some reason we are given more insight to what brand names hang in her closet than who she might actually be. By the middle of the book you don't care, are just wishing that an editor had been involved in the publishing of this book.I wonder who Ms. O'Faolin WAS dreaming of - it's never really specified, I only know I was dreaming that this irredeemable character would, in the next chapter, or the next, stop whinging, pick herself up out of her morass of self-absorbtion, and give us all a break.
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