Lynnie 
Contemporary Fiction
I really love Nick Hornby, typically. He writes characters that are interesting, entertaining & flawed & he writes them in such a way that you want to cheer for them, no matter what shenanigans they get themselves wrapped up in.
Unfortunately, I rarely found myself caring about what would happen to the cast of characters in Funny Girl, and the story was, unfortunately UNfunny. Barbara from Blackpool decides that she's not living the life she wants to live, so she heads out to London, changes her name & books a major role in a tv series in no time flat. Then, we watch her live her life. Perhaps hilarity was supposed to ensue, but it did not. In fact, it's all quite predictable from there. A few of the characters were interesting, but even they had little to do but chew the scenery.
Certainly not my favorite Hornby novel, but I still look forward to what he'll write next.
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