Have I read this before: Yes. I don’t remember when, but I do remember reading it at some point.

Review: Like a lot of the books on this list that I read when I was quite young, I have a very different interpretation of it than I did the first time around. Esther is still an incredibly annoying, spoiled, self-aggrandizing character, but it’s easier now to separate those aspects of her from her mental illness, whereas when I read it the first time, they were all intertwined. But she was still hard to empathize with, and perhaps because I’d read this before and knew how everything played out, I did not have much interest hearing about her mental health issues and the developments that followed her treatment(s).

Favorite Part: Her time in New York City is described nicely, as is her reaction to it all.

Rating: 4/10