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This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?'' or ''No, that's Blossom'' depending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is or was both, of course, but in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress she is also a neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the characters). Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.

The book is peppered with anecdotes from the author's life including her experience growing up on television, but although she often talks about how ''she'' did things, it's made painstakingly clear that ''you'' might choose to do things in a different way, and that's ok too. There's a slight American focus to the book – it talks about Community Colleges for example – but nothing that any self-respecting teen absorbed with American TV shows or novels will struggle to understand.

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