THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (Muriel Spark) - January 6/16

Oh, barf. This terribly written book is completely uninvolving from the word go, as Spark offers up a succession of almost impossibly underdeveloped characters and places them in seriously tedious scenarios. It's so repetitive, too. If I read one more character referring to the title character's "prime," I was going to throw the book out the window. Yeesh, what a bore. * out of ****