Girl Anatomy: A Comical and Heart-Warming Story of Friendship, True Love, and Becoming a Woman

by Rebecca Bloom

The hip and heart–warming story of what it means to be a girl and what it takes to become a woman. When Lilly's best friend, Maya, gets engaged, the tenuous peace treaty Lilly thought she had finally established with her perennially single self shows itself to be as long–lasting as shoulder pads and frozen yoghurt. Wavering wildly between ecstasy and envy, serial dater and retail–therapy shopper, Lilly vows to get her life together. While sipping lattes from the Coffee Bean and planning forever with Maya, Lilly embarks on an uproariously comical and strikingly poignant ride of transformation, told through a series of delightfully engaging interior monologues. Travelling the byways of her own past, Lilly learns to be optimistic about her future and relish her new–found 'chic–dom'. In a voice that grows stronger, louder and more articulate than she ever imagined, Lilly ultimately comes to embrace her on–the–verge–of–womanhood status in all its uncertain yet exciting glory. Depicting the comic adventures of being a grown–up still coming of age, Rebecca Bloom evocatively and enthusiastically reveals tender truths about friendship and true love.

Genres: Chick Lit, Fiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Rebecca Bloom has been a chef and a fashion designer, but now she is a journalist for Los Angeles Confidential magazine and a novelist.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Reviews

[Alexandra Cooper · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well... It was a choice. The book had some funny parts. Humorous quips that genuinely made me laugh out loud, but a majority of the time it was whiny, hard to get through, and kind of pointless? It seemed like some of the content was just filler? Like it didn’t contribute to backstory or the plot at all. And the ending was atrocious.

[Diana (Taylor's version) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok i know i said I'll finish yesterday, but i had homework (despite my school starts on Monday). I didn't have a lot of expectations on this book and it surprised me in good ways: it touches subjects that sometimes as a girl you have prejudice against or we refuse to discuss (like masturbation). I enjoyed this one, i even consider it a 3.5 book

[Julia · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is another book I read at my restaurant. I'd like to think I'm able to distinguish between chick lit that is also relatively good "reg lit," and the chick lit that's the epitome of the whole genre. This is just plain chick lit. Although I was entertained during several late nights when the bar was slow, and finished recovering from the intensity of "The Kindness of Strangers," I don't really have much to recommend. Bloom's protagonist does this weird internal dialogue in a different typeface than the rest of the novel, which I HATE aesthetically, and find sloppy in the literary sense as well, and then there's the total prudish approach to sex. At least in romance novels they don't beat around the bush (hah--n.p.i.). Finally, her attempts to make the heroine sympathetic sometimes just fall flat. Like a particularly weird scene involving a Lilith Fair-and-ectasy-induced epiphany. Lilith Fair, whatev. It's chick lit. Ecstasy? Really?? Weirddddddd.

[Koz · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one feels really rushed. You know when you're telling someone a story but first you want to give the context? And so you rush through the context to get to the real story? That's what this book feels like. As if the whole thing is context. The writing is SO frantic.

Adding to that problem is the immaturity. This is going to sound pretentious, but I think it might work for girls who like books like "He's Just Not That Into You" or maybe young-20-somethings into "Twilight."

[Amber Zavala · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far I love how Rebecca Bloom describes the main character(Lilly)feelings about the "GIRL" things she goes through. Rebecca uses hip lingo so its easy to relate to what Lilly is feeling. GO REBECCA! (:

[Carol Brill · Rating 2 out of 5]

I almost never give up on a book once I start it, but 50 pages in, this one just is not doing it for me. For the first 20 or so pages , I liked the narrator's voice, but just not enough here to keep me turning the pages.

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

HORRIBLE. AVOID.

If you really want to read it, please buy the copy I am selling on Amazon...

[Dianne · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was one of those books I read, all the time thinking, it's got to get better. But it didn't. Don't get it, and don't read it.

[souffle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This bok was okay but i think taht it had way too many cuss words in it lolz weird thing to say.. but ending was ok and interesting.. im happy tat she found the one thing she had always wished for.

[Stacey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy read, finished in a couple days. Fun read for a girl who might be feeling left behind when her best friend gets engaged.

[Sami · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book definately was NOT what i expected but it was OK. Not one of my favorites....

[Hayley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dumb, didn't even finish

[Cornelia (Corrie) Maston · Rating 3 out of 5]

was good towards the end but slow to start and at times she rambled so much I thought the point would never be gotten to.