While I can't say that I enjoyed "A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy," our book club had a great dialogue around philosophy and its applications to making life decisions - hence my recommending a book I did not particularly love. The philosopher and library references used to frame this book were interesting, and I appreciate where the writer was going. However, the passive nature of our heroine was not inspiring, and I was frustrated by her continuing inability to see beyond the conceptual to real life - although the end of the book seems to be the end of her nightmare. I was reminded by by fellow book club members that maybe we were expecting too much from the 19-year-old college student - and that realization led to additional great dialogue. So I consider the resulting conversation well worth the read and look forward to seeing what else Charlotte Greig creates in future.

Our club won this book from BookMovement last year. While I was intrigued by the premise (a philosophy student leveraging her learnings to resolve her currently messed up life) I thought the book was a bit episodic and the ending was dissatisfying.