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Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

by Elissa Schappell (Goodreads Author)

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Elissa Schappell's Use Me introduced us to a writer of extraordinary talent, whose "sharp, beautiful, and off-kilter debut" (Jennifer Egan) garnered critical acclaim and captivated readers. In Blueprints for Building Better Girls, her highly anticipated follow-up, she has crafted another provocative, keenly observed, and wickedly smart work of fiction that maps America's s...more Elissa Schappell's Use Me introduced us to a writer of extraordinary talent, whose "sharp, beautiful, and off-kilter debut" (Jennifer Egan) garnered critical acclaim and captivated readers. In Blueprints for Building Better Girls, her highly anticipated follow-up, she has crafted another provocative, keenly observed, and wickedly smart work of fiction that maps America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.

In these eight darkly funny linked stories, Schappell delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother— to explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers. In “Monsters of the Deep,” teenage Heather struggles to balance intimacy with a bad reputation; years later in “I’m Only Going to Tell You This Once,” she must reconcile her memories of the past with her role as the mother of an adolescent son. In “The Joy of Cooking,” a phone conversation between Emily, a recovering anorexic, and her mother explores a complex bond; in “Elephant” we see Emily’s sister, Paige, finally able to voice her ambivalent feelings about motherhood to her new best friend, Charlotte. And in “Are You Comfortable?” we meet a twenty-one-year-old Charlotte cracking under the burden of a dark secret, the effects of which push Bender, a troubled college girl, to the edge in “Out of the Blue into the Black.” Weaving in and out of one another’s lives, whether connected by blood, or friendship, or necessity, these women create deep and lasting impressions. In revealing all their vulnerabilities and twisting our preconceived notions of who they are, Elissa Schappell, with dazzling wit and poignant prose, has forever altered how we think about the nature of female identity and how it evolves.(less)

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Published September 6th 2011 by Simon & Schuster

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Jan 16, 2012 Kimberly Faith rated it 5 of 5 stars

This collection is lit gold. Elissa Schappell writes about contemporary women so successfully. These girls really suffer. And the boys! Schappell's fate hand is cruel and yet these girls/women muster it all: courage, shame, humor, grace, guilt, and compassion. The stories are interconnected and so there are some heartbreaking unspoken connections the reader can discover, ghostly underpinning. A rape brought up close in one story is referenced in another from the perspective of a friend who can't...more This collection is lit gold. Elissa Schappell writes about contemporary women so successfully. These girls really suffer. And the boys! Schappell's fate hand is cruel and yet these girls/women muster it all: courage, shame, humor, grace, guilt, and compassion. The stories are interconnected and so there are some heartbreaking unspoken connections the reader can discover, ghostly underpinning. A rape brought up close in one story is referenced in another from the perspective of a friend who can't get it together to be there for the victim. Teenage bullying and philandering haunt a woman as she tries to give her own son advice. Some of the best stories are Monsters of the Deep, The Joy of Cooking, (in One Story Magazine) and Out of the Blue and into the Black. The Joy of Cooking is a simple, brilliant premise. A mother must tell her daughter with an eating disorder how to cook a chicken. And, this story is mostly a phone call. It easily could be a mess of a story or overly wrought, but I found it very moving. Monsters of the Deep may be my favorite story of them all. It got under me and was great fuel for a day of writing. Honestly, though, this is one of those rare occasions where I relished every story. There are no lead sinkers here. The writing is fearless but also true and that's the gift. It's a comfort to read something relative and to get to witness a reckoning, a redemption. I didn't want this collection to end.

Some excerpts:

From "A Dog Story" --

"For some reason, Doulgas took my hand." (This slayed me because a couple has lost a child and Schappel gives us a info bomb with that "for some reason." Being her husband and loving her isn't enough to explain. This woman's distrust and resentment from grief are all thrown into the questioning of that gesture.

"To be fair, Douglas never said Kate lost the baby with any blame or bitterness. Still, Kate lost the baby, especially when said to his mother, made it sound like I left it in a bowling alley, or drove off with it on the roof of our car. Miscarried. I hated that term too. It implied negligence on my part. It whispered maliciousness, irresponsibility, like I'd held the baby upside down, swung it by one foot, dropped it like a bag of eggs. I didn't have to tell my mother, she heard it in my voice. "Oh, Kate," she said. Two days later, a spider plant arrived. It's impossible to kill a spider plant."

"When the technician couldn't find the heartbeat, my husband asked her to keep looking, as if the baby were playing Marco Polo and had swum behind a kidney, or was curled up and holding its breath under my lungs."

From "The Joy of Cooking" and an example of an excellent first sentence --

"I was halfway out the door when the phone rang. Another person would have let the machine pick up, but you know how it is when you're a mother."

"No one saw how much the mother hurt. No one knew, or cared, what she’d lost.” (A really moving moment where Schappell draws attention to the fact that the mother of an anorexic child is in recovery too).

Finally, Schappell opens the book with two quotes. The one that follows sums up so much:

"I will not become what I mean to you." Barbara Kruger

I rolled that one around in my mind for awhile and can't get enough of it. Therein lies the many dramas of living, doesn't it? (less)

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Sep 22, 2012 Abby rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2011

Blueprints for Building Better Girls is a cleverly interlocked collection of short stories that explores the various roles women play throughout their lives: as daughters, girlfriends, wives, and mothers, etc.

Schappell's stories try to make the point that to be a woman is to constantly exist in duality: Girlfriends can be sluts, mothers can be resentful caretakers, wives can be the other women, and daughters can be ungrateful and undutiful.

These short stories attempt to explore the compromises...more

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Feb 05, 2013 Judith rated it 4 of 5 stars

Chick-Lit alert. There are very few real men in this book and they are either devastatingly handsome bad boys or absent murky fathers. However, I really liked this book a lot and highly recommend it to all my female friends.

It is a series of loosely connected stories depicting the lives of various women at various ages. I kept being surprised to discover that the rebellious daughter in one story turns out to be a long-suffering mother of rebellious daughters in another story. There are so many...more

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Oct 09, 2012 Sarah Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: age-29

I liked this book! I had picked it up over and over again for the past year or so, and then would get distracted and put it down. Happens with this type of books to me a lot-- those about girls and young women, particularly short stories. These linked stories are really interesting-- lots of big issues: rape, eating disorders, love/infatuation, family issues, and handles them with subtlety. Many of the stories are framed as memories, with a character in the present telling her story to somone el...more

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Jan 28, 2012 elka rated it 5 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. There were only a few spelling errors, and I smiled to myself as I came across them, because I knew as I read that this would be a book that will hopefully see many printings over time. These typos will not live to see the second printing, because Elissa Schappell is meticulous and passionate, and she is the editor of Tin House so if this book doesn't live long you can just smack me and call me late for dinner. if you like short stories that have sex with novels, this is the book for you.

Schapp...more There were only a few spelling errors, and I smiled to myself as I came across them, because I knew as I read that this would be a book that will hopefully see many printings over time. These typos will not live to see the second printing, because Elissa Schappell is meticulous and passionate, and she is the editor of Tin House so if this book doesn't live long you can just smack me and call me late for dinner. if you like short stories that have sex with novels, this is the book for you.

Schappell plays with carrying elements in her form. Schappell makes time elapse in an almost drunken way, folding in on itself like the jump of memory, almost akin to Mary Gaitskill's Veronica but culminating in a story that leads you to question whether there might be more, and once she's dragged you out to sea you are beat up by the undertow of overall plot. It was there all along, but you never saw it coming. Have you ever witnessed a robbery without being sure of what you're seeing? I saw a guy steal a bike once. I was standing across the street, directly facing the bike racks. His body held nonchalance like a breath and I thought he was messing around with his own bike, that's how comfortable he looked to me. I had no idea what his true intent was until he started off with the tire.

A particular story in the collection, Out of the Blue and Into The Black, pays distinct characteristic homage to Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction. The student blacklist. Schappell dips into this roster as if it's character suggestions, and the way she does it is totally gleeful! She takes off. Perhaps she chose this nod as a comfort, a bit of a touchpoint in her work that she could jump off from stylistically, much like Ellis himself.

Before this, I couldn't quite picture someone who went to Europe for a summer and came back with an accent. Those just weren't the sort of people that I knew. But Schappell echoes Ellis playfully, and I started to feel seasick for the timultuous lives described therein. For once being that age, and for being on autopilot in similar ways.

You'll see what I mean when you read it. I like that it's published as short stories, and not as a novel. I like mixing genres; there's a certain feminist restructuring at work here, not only in the voices chosen but in the book's overall structure. I looked at the alternate cover, and thought they made a good editorial decision there. It sort of kicks your ass just that much more.

Again, I love that this was published as short stories, cataloged as so in my library anyway. The thematically or character-linked stories add a developing/devolving humanity past pure need that Ellis, obviously, lacked, and their comparison pretty much exists in the youth of that particular story. But where does that particular story end, and where did it actually start? Somehow the hollow ache created there has been there all along, and now we are older, and wiser, and we know what it is to love, so we know that the ache has a time limit. A nicely timed-short story. And then it is gone. (less)

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Oct 19, 2011 Zach rated it 5 of 5 stars

I’m not sure that the girls in Building Blueprints for Better Girls are necessarily better for their experiences, but they are intensely familiar, as if I had studied their blueprints. As you read, it’s hard not to think, Oh, I know her. It’s not that a character reminds you of someone you already know, but that they are rendered with such consistent attention to personal identity that you feel you should know them. You expect to run into them on the sidewalk.

The book elevates self-examination t...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Simon & Schuster Goodreads rated it 4 of 5 stars

Don't let the format fool you. Elissa Schappell's collection of short stories, BLUEPRINTS FOR BUILDING BETTER GIRLS (Simon & Schuster, HC 9780743276702, e-Book 9781451607321, September 2011), reads like a complete, fully-realized novel. Schappell introduces eight extraordinary, complex, and wonderfully-imperfect women who make unexpected visits into each other's stories. In the first story, "Monsters of the Deep," we meet an adolescent girl in the 1980s dubbed as the high school floozy, only...more

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May 04, 2013 Jade McDonough rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: alt-chick-lit, favorites, literary

If I had to describe this book in five words it would be: beautiful, heart wrenching, real, haunting. It has been a long time since I couldn't put a book down without great difficulty. Schappell has written a series of short stories that is so intimately relatable that it's impossible to feel for these girls.
There are some reviewers who were bemoaning and wanting to know where the "strong" women were in this anthology and the point of this was that these were not strong women. They were real bro...more

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Feb 07, 2012 Eliza rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: short-stories

2/6/2012: These stories are painful to read; they hit so very close to home. Girls (or women, depending on your point of view) are searching for love, for connection, for validation--and yet they keep coming up against their own shortcomings, their fears, their shaky self-esteem. My least favorite one--which also makes it the best story in the collection--is The Joy of Cooking. In it, Emily, a 24 year old struggling with anorexia, calls her mother to ask for her roast chicken recipe--she is exci...more 2/6/2012: These stories are painful to read; they hit so very close to home. Girls (or women, depending on your point of view) are searching for love, for connection, for validation--and yet they keep coming up against their own shortcomings, their fears, their shaky self-esteem. My least favorite one--which also makes it the best story in the collection--is The Joy of Cooking. In it, Emily, a 24 year old struggling with anorexia, calls her mother to ask for her roast chicken recipe--she is excited about cooking for her first boyfriend. Her mother walks her through it over the phone, thinking back all the while over her daughter's history, wondering how she became the person she is. Meanwhile the daughter is gagging over the chicken, almost unable to touch it, let alone enjoy preparing it. The most poignant story I've read in a while: Schappell is able to show the love between these damaged women, the hope, the fear, the despair on each side of the conversation. Oh dear.

The stories are connected in that the same characters reappear, sometimes at different points in their lives, sometimes as side characters in other women's stories. (Emily's sister Paige has her own story; Paige's story is also about Charlotte, who also appears in two other stories.) We also see characters develop over time; for example, Heather is a teenager in one story, then the mother of a teenaged son in a later one. This works well in that I get to see how the girls' insecurities play out over their lives. Unfortunately, it's not pretty--they haven't worked out their insecurities, only translated them from one canvas to another. (If only they'd had some therapy!) And Schappell does all of this well; their behavior, their responses to situations, are practically foreordained. Even as I want to scream at them No! Bad choice! they keep making the same mistakes again and again.

All that said, Schappell writes well, and the collection is pretty amazing…though I'm not sure to whom I would recommend it!
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Aug 26, 2012 Christina G rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: short-stories

4.5 stars - this book has not gotten nearly as much hype as it deserves. I picked it up because I'd heard it compared to A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, and while it wasn't quite as good as that, I would still highly recommend it to those of you with a dark sense of humor and a feminist sensibility.

The book is made up of 8 short stories (that are sorta linked through recurring characters) about a variety of white, straight women in the 1970s-present day. Sometimes I have trouble ge...more

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Nov 06, 2011 Ciara rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: feminist-y-books, read-in-2011

this book is excellent, but don't let some of the more slavering reviews on goodreads fool you. this is in no way like a "complete & fully-realized novel," nor do the "stories blend seamlessly into one another." what were those reviewers thinking? put down the crack pipe, guys. this is a collection of short stories, & while each one features at least one character that has been featured in another story in the book (sometimes the narrator, sometimes a character so secondary as to not eve...more

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Sep 04, 2011 Lauren rated it 5 of 5 stars

Daaaaaamnnnn I didn't want this one to end!

Schappell's second book, a collection of short stories, is spot-on. Each story, though separate, blends seamlessly into the next, giving readers a comprehensive view of the characters. This is the perfect choice if you only have pockets of time in which to read - but you won't want to stop at just one story!

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Jan 07, 2012 Alex Templeton rated it 2 of 5 stars

I remember reading Elissa Schappell’s novel “Use Me” back at the end of high school and not liking it; still, when I read such positive reviews of this short story collection, I was ready to dismiss my high school self’s opinion of Schappell because, goodness knows, my tastes were definitely questionable back then. (I read VC Andrews for fun, for YEARS.) All of this is to say that I was disappointed that I was greatly disappointed in this collection. It’s not because Schappell is necessarily a b...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Kellie rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Smart women and/or fans of Jean Thompson

Recommended to Kellie by: First Reads

Shelves: first-reads, fiction

I feel really lucky that I won a free copy of this short story collection from the First Reads program. I had never read anything by Elissa Schappell before, but I would recommend her work. The stories in this collection are witty and moving, with well-drawn characters and familiar conflicts. Each story is complete in itself, but there are characters and elements that overlap. The plots include bad relationships, anorexia, rape, infidelity, and motherhood - and always presents these issues in a...more

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May 08, 2012 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars

I should learn not to check out books on a whim, but I did last week. Interestingly, the book mentioned The Bell Jar, the last book I read in a funny line about college girls just needing to shed a few tears and flash a copy of The Bell Jar at the student health center in order to get some Valium. I didn't need to even try that -- I had dear Grandma Joyce for that. (Really, she only gave me Valium once. Honest.)

Blueprint for Building Better Girls seemed like a book I'd love -- a character-based...more

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Aug 24, 2011 Agnes Mack rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, first-reads

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 st...more

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Apr 04, 2012 nicole rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

I enjoyed the dark writing and trying to discover where the characters intersections occurred. While I thought this book was interesting, there was one thing I thought it lacked -- the happy girl. I know first-hand that being a woman is hard and I appreciated this close examination of the thoughts and feelings associated with differing archetypes that are outside of my own experience.

But where is the confident woman, the girl who didn't leave her friend behind at the frat party, who gets riled...more

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Dec 21, 2011 Julie Ekkers rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Blueprints is a volume of interlocking short stories which explore the formation of female identity through the lens of some typical archetypes--e.g. the slut, the good girl, and so on. In so doing, I think the author shows how women can be spoken of and thought of monolithically, particuarly with respect to the cultural forces and messages at work on them, but also demonstrates how, at the same time, women are diminished if their individuality and their unique experiences are ignored. The book...more

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Aug 26, 2011 Patty rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, free-book, girls-education, girls, women, women-writers, linked-stories, fiction, contemporary-fiction, mothers-and-daughters, husband-and-wife, short-stories

First of all, thanks to the publisher and Good Reads for providing review copies to general readers. This is a great program and this book by Schappell was the first book I received through the Good Reads giveaways. I am not sure I would have picked this up on my own and that would have been my loss. I am off to a wonderful start with Blueprints and I can't wait for the next book I get.

This was a fun read. I am not sure what started the trend (which for me began with Melissa Banks)of linked, int...more

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Aug 09, 2012 Meryl rated it 5 of 5 stars

Elissa Schappell’s collection of interconnected short stories was one of the best short story collections I have ever read. Each character was distinctly drawn. They were not heroes or antiheroes, but real girls and women struggling with issues that were unique while feeling universal. Her cast of repeating characters each stood on her own, and were then illuminated by how they were seen through other characters’ perspectives. Through her stories, she showed how women are influenced by their exp...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Danelle rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: short-stories, mine, favorites

Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Stories is a collection of eight short stories with a cast of lead female characters who all have a reputation: high school slut, goody two-shoes, party girl, overprotective mom, etc.

The stories all share those moments when you move from being a girl to a woman. They are those moments that you don't celebrate and you don't necessarily talk about. They aren't those 'getting your period' or 'sweet sixteen' moments, they are more along the lines of those 'walk...more

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Jul 24, 2012 Susan Adamson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Wow, this book was nothing like what I thought it would be like. In fact, I was so predisposed at first to thinking about it in a particular way, I had to start over after I was about 60 pages in. The female characters are indeed complex (as indicated by the promotional review), often existing in uncomfortable (for me and them) relationships with men. The title is a reference to a vintage book of etiquette that a mostly dysfunctional couple read out loud together. They laugh (ironically) at "how...more

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Dec 27, 2012 Becky rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It's been way too long since I couldn't put a book down. The girls/women in these stories are what I expected, with all it's hype, Heti's "How Should A Person Be?" characters would be like before I read and was disappointed. I can see myself and the women in my life in these stories and relationships. The only thing that I disliked was the male characters were weak and constantly antagonistic to the point that they were unbelievable at times. "Aren't You Dead Yet?" was my favorite (my relationsh...more

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Nov 15, 2011 Pia rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wonder if Elissa Schappell is lonely. Because that's the one thread that ties each and everyone of her heroines, each of whom have a story that ties to the one before it. Each of these women are in different stages of their lives, either alienated by sex or gossip or even a stigma they have created themselves. How sad I felt for these women, how utterly painful it was to read some of these, because they left me with an empty pit in my stomach about wanting to raise my daughters "the right way....more

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Dec 21, 2011 Katrina rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a collection of stories that come together very briefly and in disjointed moments. These are realistic stories but fairly boring, mostly depressing. Does anyone want to relive those moments of shame, dissatisfaction, and heartbreak? Maybe if there was a greater purpose. As the title hints, a growth in the characters is expected but instead we see them just have unhappy adult moments to mirror earlier adolescent ones. Is the point of these stories just to remind us that the plan is alread...more

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Feb 18, 2012 Alsy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Love, love, love this book. Elissa Schappell does an excellent job of creating female characters, whether they're in their teens or have already reached womanhood, of exploring the uncertainty, pain, awkwardness, fear, love and lust in their lives that readers (especially female readers) can sympathize and relate to. In some ways like Salinger, Elissa brings back supporting characters from other short stories to serve as main narrators in related stories .Most impressive how author manages to cr...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Jodi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-read, shortstories

Every six months or so for the past decade, I’d randomly type ‘Elissa Schappell’ into Amazon’s search bar and cross my fingers. I kept hoping and hoping that she had released a book that some how slipped by me. I fell in love so hard with her collection of linked short stories Use Me that I longed for something else.

When I spied Blueprints for Building Better Girls on some Fall 2011 release list, I bounced in my chair, fist pumping like a member of the Jersey Shore. I was excited.

I marched right...more

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Nov 21, 2011 Tracy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

Short stories linked together tell the story of the lives women lead, both good and bad.

"Monsters of the Deep" tells the story of Ross and Heather, high school lovers who struggle with many insecurities. Others who appear in this story: Belinda, Ms. Sandburg, Cecile, Lorraine.

"A Dog Story" is about Douglas and Katie, a young married couple whose relationship is never the same after Katie has a miscarriage.

In "Are You Comfortable", Charlotte moves back home from college after being raped at a pa...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Tracey Shapley rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was a really good book that made me think. Some books are well written but don't really get through to you, or others really give you an emotional reaction but aren't really written that well. This book managed to be both excellently and brilliantly written, as well as moving.

Because they are a bunch of short stories that intertwine, it was really cool to read along and wonder when the connection would come up. Sometimes they were really surprising, and this book definitely kept me on my f...more

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Jan 27, 2012 Rosy rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was shelved in the YA section of Barnes and Noble, and though it isn't a YA book as I originally thought, I think teenagers will benefit from reading Blueprints for Building Better Girls just as much as, if not more than, adults (speaking as a 16-year-old). I'm not normally a fan of short stories, but this book really worked; all of them were interconnected, even if by the slightest character. Each voice felt distinct and every story was touching and striking in a different way.

It's one of...more

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