false 1924490 1416549463 9781416549468 272 47 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1924490.Little_Things_A_Memoir_in_Slices 45429 Jeffrey Brown 3174 385 2 0 false Mon Aug 03 21:28:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 21:29:19 -0700 2009
And yet, somehow, I don’t.

The problem is, I think, that Brown is too much like me, and most of the 30somethings I know. His stories, while amusing at times, lack the kind of emotional significance and depth I look for when I read. And that’s not to say every story you read has to be a life or death moment of drama-filled importance. However, the onus is on the writer to include in his/her story why exactly the story is being told at all. And that’s what each of the slices is missing, the whyness of them.

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