The Art of Not Falling Apart

Hmm. This started off great and I was really invested in Christina's story in the opening chapters, but the rest of the book didn't live up to that. There is very little structure, and although it's personal and contains a lot of Christina's own thoughts, it was more her asking her small group of friends what bad things have happened to them and how they dealt with it. So it's personal, but not at the same time. And as her friendship is a very small demographic (artists and writers etc, who are definitely not complete failures...ironically considering one of the main themes is failure), it was really difficult for me to feel properly invested and interested in all these stories. I also had some problems with a few of Christina's opinions, especially surrounding chronic illness. In the end, not my cup of tea.