I feel as though this is a very specific book for a very specific audience, and I unfortunately don’t think I’m in that group. I truly feel decades older than the author, although I don’t actually know how old she is which is very interesting considering what you can usually find online.

But she never seems to consider the idea of just one or two close friends rather than a slew of them, and that’s completely antithetical to how I work. She’s definitely been influenced by tv shows that I’ve never seen, so that didn’t help me much either. Even though she has a lot of friends it seems, I do find it odd that apparently they’re all one offs and not necessarily friends together in any small groups; she never addressed that aspect that I can remember either.

If nothing else this did make me reminisce about my own friendships over the years and how to try to revive some in order to bring back amazing people into my life as that’s not really addressed much either (she talks about maintenance but not how to reach out so long after the fact—again making me feel ancient in that she doesn’t seem to have had many years to contemplate this all). ( )