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Sophie Applebaum is an everywoman who doesn't quite fit in anywhere. She's looking for a career but lacks a calling, looking for love but winds up with men who hold her off instead of pull her in. At cocktail parties, she feels like a solid trying to do a liquid's job. It isn't easy to find your place in the world, but Sophie's willing to work. With every misstep, she's closer to creating the life she wants to have.

So, So. It is a running commentary of all the boyfriends she has had since she was 12. It just goes on and on. I really dont get her humor.

Great read. I really liked her book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and was equally pleased with this book.

Relatable journey through one very realistic young woman's late 20th-century journey from a uncertain childhood, through a self-doubting adolescence, to an aimless young adulthood and, finally, to some well-earned clarity about who she is, what she wants, and what growing up is for. I especially loved the episodic format, almost a series of connected short stories that comprise snapshots at key periods of the narrators' life. So, so wry and funny. Especially recommended if you enjoyed Melissa Bank's previous novel, _A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing_.

I've wanted to read this book for a while because I loved 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'. It took me a while to get into this one, but by the end I didn't want to put it down.

I didn't really like this book. It is about a girl, Sophie, and all of the men she has encountered throughout her life. She lives in New York City. She works in advertising but doesn't like it. She is waiting for something better to come along, but doesn't try hard enough to change jobs or get something different. As I read the book, I kept waiting for something to happen, like her falling in love or actually liking the life she is living. I must have missed something because I really didn't understand what the book was about. In fact, it kind of depressed me.