Regarding Pamie's book -- I didn't find it boring (there were some boring *moments*, but hey, it's a first novel, so I cut her some slack). And I think she did a good job of contrasting LDobler's relatively gentle obsessiveness with the more dangerous obsessiveness of Tess, and with the narrator's own obsessiveness about her ex-boyfriend. I mean, AnnaK writing journal entries as if she were still dating her ex was pretty creepy and stalkerish, too. I thought the book was a nice exploration of the weirdness of getting to know one another via mediated personalities. I also appreciated that it doesn't end with a fairy-tale love thing between LDobler and AnnaK; it's more ambiguous than that. It's a book where most of the main characters are deeply fucked-up at the beginning, and manage to at least get on the road to functional human relationships by the end. I like that kind of book. Seems very human.