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Once I Was Cool
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays | Megan Stielstra
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In these insightful, compassionate, gutsy, and heartbreaking personal essays, Stielstra, whose essay "Channel B” was recently featured in Best American Essays 2013 edited by Cheryl Strayed, explores the messy, maddening beauty of adulthood with wit, intelligence, and biting humor. The essays in Once I Was Cool tackle topics ranging from beating postpartum depression by stalking her neighbor, to a surprise run-in with an old lover while on ecstasy, to blowing her mortgage on a condo she bought because of Jane's Addiction. Or, said another way, they tackle life in all of its quotidian richness.
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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays | Megan Stielstra
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I loved The Wrong Way to Save Your Life so much I got online and ordered this one right away.

Ended up with a signed copy.....what a super duper surprise!

melbeautyandbooks Nice surprise! 7y
rather_be_reading love when tht happens 6y
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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays | Megan Stielstra
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So this was pretty good. It's a collection of essays, mostly about the author's life. Now, a lot focused on motherhood which I'm really not all that interested in reading about, but I didn't dislike them either. So consider this review halfway between so-so and pick.

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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays | Megan Stielstra
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well said!

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Theresa Love this! 💚💜 8y
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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays | Megan Stielstra
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Books and wine are all that matters. I loved this short story collection!

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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays | Megan Stielstra
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Finally getting to this one. About damn time.

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