In the course of nearly three hundred pages, Heti examines and cross-examines herself to decide whether or not she should have a child before it is too late.
Mary Karr examines what can make the form work, and, naturally, examines herself in the process.
While Maddy is mostly well drawn, there is something depressing about the obligatory passage every thriller with a female lead seems to have – I call them "But What Do Her Breasts Look Like?" scenes – in which she strips to examine herself in the mirror and is relieved to find herself trim and sexy, with "no obvious cellulite on her thighs, no dimpling of fat".
"Fancy dress is quite the drain," she remarked, standing up to examine herself in the mirror.
She does not blame herself nor refuse to examine herself.
I slip back into the conference room, where Margot is using her £700 Wi-Fi iPad telescope to examine herself.
The pair's direct history goes back to 1977, when Sereny took it upon herself to examine the sources of Hitler's War.
Jess is a Bund Deutscher Mädel stalwart, a champion ice-skater, a credit to the regime … until, encouraged by Clementine, she begins to deviate from the straight and narrow, allowing herself to examine the thoughts she's repressed for as long as she can remember.
She sits and peers about, toying with her hair, examining the hem of her dress, examining herself in a mirror.
Wieder then examined herself in the bathroom mirror.
Good coaching questions give someone who's busy and competent the space in which to step back and examine herself.
