A review by judyward
I Totally Meant to Do That by Jane Borden

3.0

So how do you adjust being brought up in a huge, emotionally engaged Southern family, going to a boarding school in Virginia and college at Chapel Hill, and then you move to New York City? Jane Borden tells the story of such a life and it's highly amusing. For example, she thought that she had a medical condition when she first moved to New York because her face hurt so much. Then she realized that she was trying to smile at every person she encountered while walking down a crowded New York Street. Trying to reconcile her "upbringing" with the reality of New York City living, ignore the constant stream of warnings that are being delivered to her about the dangers of big city living, and embrace her new life while constantly being tugged back towards North Carolina makes for a charming and often hysterical memoir.