Book Review: "The Debut," by Anita Brookner

Not sure where I heard about this one, but I must've heard about it somewhere. I should keep notes on who recommends what that I end up reading.
"The Debut" is about this woman who knows "that her life had been ruined by literature." It had promised that Cinderella would go to the ball, but "The ball had never materialized." Instead she ended up old-fashioned, "scrupulous, passionate, thoughtful, and given to self-analysis," and of course, pale. A good start.
And then it flashes back to when she was in her early twenties, showing how her life unfolded and how she ended up where she was. It was okay, and I was figuring it was leading somewhere.
And then came the end, and you find out it wasn't leading anywhere, and you feel like while it wasn't terrible and it was fine while you were reading it, it was really just taking time away from other books you could've been reading. It was only 192 pages, though, and didn't take that long to read, so whatever. My overall impression was, 'ih.'