renatasnacks's review
4.0
I picked this up because it matched my catalog search for [a:Eula Biss|60913|Eula Biss|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1227734650p2/60913.jpg]. It turns out that I had already read her essay included in this ("Goodbye to all that") but I like personal essays so I checked it out. It's a pretty strong collection. I was excited about the essay written by the guy who did volunteer work in the Dominican Republic, and there were a lot of interesting perspectives in here.
sarahbotreads's review
4.0
As an aspiring writer, and someone who went through a rather unexpected and completely unpleasant "quarter-life crisis," I loved a lot of the stories in this collection. It was my bedtim book, and I think my boyfriend got tired of my surreptitious giggles and my attempts to make him listen to me read passages to him. I often worry that my life has been too bourgeois, boring, and happy to be interesting, but these stories show that you can make art and humor out of the small and large things that are happening all the time.
starkrawzen's review
3.0
A few shining standouts but many unfocused or trying-too-hard pieces. A few with typical snobbish and entitled tones perhaps expected of people in quarterlife, annoying but worth reading as examples of how not to write. Others were much more thoughtful and well rounded vignettes. Glad to have found this since I adore essay collections but certainly not a must read.
julianlarue's review
2.0
like with a lot of collections/anthologies, the quality is quite varying between essays. there were some that i liked but overall nothing outstanding. generally pretty forgettable.
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