Name: Dear Diary
ISBN: 9781576873830

Lesley Arfin

Presents excerpts from the author's diary from age twelve to twenty-five, updating each entry with information on later events, conversations she had with those mentioned, and her current perspective on the issues raised.

Dear Diary

Jeannette Ordas

Lesley Arfin's diary entries started out being worried about being flat chested to attending hardcore shows with 23 year olds and then being addicted to heroin in college. Dear Diary is a fast read filled with honesty, but it lacks insight...I mean it's Arfin's continuation of her Vice magazine column and the book is published by Vice, after all. I think the book does get better once Arfin starts college since the interviews she does with the people she surrounded herself with at the time seemed more real, but this book still only get 2 stars from me. 

But what really pissed me off about the book is that there are no illustration credits anywhere (and the illustrations are pretty great). I thought it might be Debbie Drechsler, but after some online research it's Vanessa Davis.

Dear Diary

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