Kylie's Book Log

Best Book of the Month: The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Susanna Kaysen
Runners-Up: Love in the Asylum, Lisa Carey; The Far Side of Evil, Sylvia Engdahl
The Don't Bother Award: Such a Pretty Girl x10
Recommendations of Specific Books to Specific People Who May or May Not Read This Journal: This month was not as good as January as far as my reading material went, and I honestly can't think of any specific recs I want to make to specific people.
Number of Books Read This Month: 13

Book: 23
Title: The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Genre: Memoir
One-sentence summary: Susanna Kaysen has a problem with her vagina, and with her asshole sex-obsessed boyfriend.
Why did you get this book? I've read Kaysen before and I love her writing. And this turned up on PaperbackSwap.
Do you like the cover? It's just the title. It's fine.
Did you enjoy the book? I did, mostly, as mentioned, on the strength of her writing. It didn't attempt any Vagina Monologues-style meditation on the meaning of the vagina; basically, her vagina hurts, a lot. To me, the more fully fleshed-out journey of the book was her growing realization of how awful her boyfriend was, and her evolving understanding of the various forms sexual violence can take. Which sounds both dopey and clinical, but anyway. At any rate, I did like the book.
Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? No. There's only one book of hers that I know of that I haven't yet read, which is Far Afield, one of her novels. I may read that at some point, and if she publishes anything else, which is likely, I'll probably check it out.
Are you keeping it or passing it on? Keeping.
Anything else? I really like the font that's used in both this book and Girl, Interrupted. Ummm... that's all.
Scale of 1 to 10: 8
Number of pages: 158
Total pages for the year: 7134