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Well, so did I. By the middle of the book, I gave up. Soooo boring! Nothing happened! It took the author way too long to get to anything resembling action, and while some would bill it as a 'gentle' coming of age story, it was too hard to find the story in it. Seriously, fifty pages to find out that Debbie likes to borrow her sister's nail polish and paint her toes? The characters were tenuously connected, at best, and there didn't seem to be a central plot or conflict. At least, if there was one, it was too well-hidden. The characters were generic, not easily distinguishable one from the other, and while I felt that she was trying to draw beauty out of the mundane I could have lived without pages describing how Debbie would curl up inside her sweatshirt. Seriously, don't waste your time.