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Book # 35 College Girl

Over the past couple of days, I read College Girl  by Patricia Weitz. This is a story about a girl who goes to college, and loses herself while trying to find herself. It's about a girl with a lot of issues, insecurities, and problems to overcome all while trying to have a real normal college experience. The main character, Natalie, goes through a lot during the book, and yet in the end it's not about love, or sex, or drinking, it's about Natalie trying to process her brother's death, while trying to become herself and not be afraid. When I first started this book, I have to be honest I didn't like it at all. I disliked the main character so much throughout the whole novel, because she is weak, insecure, confused, and so much like the girls that guys usually take advantage of in college. I pitied her, and yet I wanted her to change, to get better, to become herself throughout the whole book.  In the end though, I really liked this book, I think the end, and the ch