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    Blueprints for Building Better Girls
    Audiobook9 hours

    Blueprints for Building Better Girls

    Written by Elissa Schappell

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Elissa Schappell's book delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters including the high school slut, the party girl, the reluctant mother, and the anorexic daughter, twisting our pre-conceived notions of who these women are, offering surprising revelations into the nature of female identity, and how it evolves. How the adolescent girl labeled the school slut in 'Monsters of the Deep' will twenty years later become a mother in 'I'm Only Going to Tell You This Once' and, faced with daunting reality of raising a teenage son, be forced to revisit her past. Whether connected by blood, friendship, or necessity, whether living in the same city or in the imagination of others, these women will create a deep and lasting impression.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateSep 6, 2011
    ISBN9781611201451
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    Blueprints for Building Better Girls
    Author

    Elissa Schappell

    Elissa Schappell writes the "Hot Type" cohmm for Vanity Fair and is a founding editor of the new literary magazine Tin House. She received her MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She has been a senior editor at The Paris Review and has contributed to numerous magazines, including GQ, Vogue, Bomb, Bookforum, and Spin. She lives in Brooklyn.

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    • 3/5
      There were stories I liked and others not so much. Overall, I enjoyed the book. I thought the writing was excellent. I can't say as I liked any of the characters, but I think that may have been part of the point. I had trouble with keeping track of the stories and characters. Because the stories bounced from person to person and from decade to decade, I found I couldn't remember who the characters were from story to story so that when I encountered them again I couldn't remember exactly who they were until I looked back and found them.
    • 3/5
      Enjoyable but I struggle with short stories in general. A few great lines and, if you're a short-story person, pretty solid.
    • 4/5
      Excellent book of short stories with recurring characters, but as seen from various perspectives and at different times in their lives.
    • 5/5
      I want to buy 1,000 copies of Blueprints for Building Better Girls and hand them out to random passersby on the streets. I want this book to be read, immediately, by everyone I've ever known or will ever know. This is incredible stuff. Easily the best book I've read this year. Possibly the best book I've ever read.It is a series of short stories that center around women and the relationships we have with one another, with our lovers, with our spouses, our children, our parents. Most of the stories intersect with another story in some way. There was laughing, there was crying. There was one particular 8 page section that I had to read out of the corner of my eye because I just couldn't face it head on.It is brave, and honest, and exceptional in every way. This book made me a wiser person.Thank you, Goodreads First Reads program for sending me this book and thank you Elissa Schappell for writing it.