" I'm not sure what I think. The book has the elements of an ordinary novel or story: a likable woman protagonist; a boyfriend she might breakup with; a best friend who is having an affair; an older man who the protagonist might want to have an affair with; a career she is dissatisfied with; and money problems. Her career is writing, and after an award for a new writer, she is stalled writing anonymous young adult novels and the occasional science fiction novel. When she edits her work on her Serious novel, it keeps getting smaller--currently down to 43 words. She talks about writing, tells jokes to her friends, does not care tat sex with her boyfriend has always been infrequent, and she walks her dog. She has an estranged friend who is said to be developing a theory of the anti-story and this novel seems to be an example of an anti-story, and maybe a bit of a shaggy-dog-story. Events happen, lives change (or maybe they don't), clues are dropped (and then contravened), but they don't add up to a story as I expected it. In being inconclusive the book is like life as we (I) know it, and that may be the point of this novel. I have the urge to reread this book, in part to see how much of the talk about stories is embodies in this novel, and this might result in my upgrading my evaluation. "
— Don, 2/10/2014