Mark the date: 1 December 2019. On this day, I am giving 5 stars to a book, written in the last five years, by a novelist I'd never read before.

Miracles happen. ( )

need this to be revised... 3.5 ( )

I struggled to relate to this. Our main character is Frances, a 21 year old student cum intern who lives rent free in a flat owned by her family and receives an allowance from her drunken father. She has a best friend, Bobbi, and we follow this pair through about 6 months. They meet Melissa, a photographer and her actor husband Nick. These two quickly become embroiled in Frances & Bobbi's lives.
The title implies that there are conversations between friends. As the book progressed I became increasingly convinced that what Frances really needed were some friends, rather than the echo chamber she lives in. ( )

i'm sorry but nothing will ever be normal people it seems. 3.75. ( )

3.5 or maybe even 4/5

it is incredible how much I enjoyed this book, despite how self-absorbed, stewing in her own self-pity, and absolutely TERRIBLE AT COMMUNICATION the main character could be! but also so relatable and she understands me?

some of this felt so obnoxiously pretentious that i hated it, and some of it was so pretentious that i loved it

i did not expect to like this book at all. still a bit confused to be honest, but i really enjoyed the style.

it felt intimate and vulnerable, but also! like hearing gossip about people i don't know, but also?! like i'm a fly on the wall of their lives

and since i just read it, it felt like what the author of CMBYN /wanted/ their book to feel like ( )