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I didn't love this book. I found the diary format kind of rambling and disorienting. And, at times she complains a lot about NPR which I thought was fun as I have always associated her as NPR.

What I did love was remembering this year in my life (1995) as it was probably one of the last years I really listened to the radio. I remember driving home from dropping off a video (not a DVD!) at the video store and hearing about Kurt Cobain's death on 107.7 (The End). I remember seeing Courtney Love at Lollapalooza. I remember the radio meaning so much to me, a teen in a small rural town, it was my connection to the big city (Seattle, at the time). It was pre-internet days, so before myspace, facebook, etc, the radio was how I knew about new music. I also spent a LOT of time in my car driving around, so the radio was my companion then (one thing I miss as a bicycle commuter is the radio).

It was also an interesting look back at politics in the mid-90's when Clinton was still our hero, Newt was our punching bag, and the federal government shut down several times when the budget couldn't be balanced. Finishing this right before the elections, it made me wonder what lies ahead in the Obama years, as there is always this push-pull between liberalism and conservatism in our country.