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The Spinster Diaries
The Spinster Diaries: A Novel | Gina Fattore
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Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, shes a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty much invented the chick-lit novel. A semi-autobiographical unromantic comedy, The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick litas well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It's an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one persons life can reach out across the centuries to touch anothers.
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TiffanyMichele
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Bailedbailed

For q diary entry based book I actually didn‘t get emotionally involved with the MC at all. I didn‘t care about her and certainly was frustrated with her constant whining by chapter 3.
By page 100 I was 50% through the novel and 100% done with reading it.
Looked up the ending and started skimming. It was a terrible experience and the MCs Frances Burney obsession seems to have factual holes in it from my brief research.

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charl08
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It allows me to feel right all the time...

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charl08
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Or living at all!

Suet624 Wow! 4y
Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira Bitter 😏 4y
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Nitpickyabouttrains
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Mehso-so

I am not sure what I thought about this one. Written like diaries entries, with one every month or so. Some parts were linear but a lot happened off screen and just gets recapped. But I loved the voice of the POV.

charl08 Yes, the narrator voice was great. I'm hoping for a sequel. 4y
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