Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan. What an interruption of my free time! No wonder my mom found this in the $5.98 bin at Borders.
Thought I was off on a grand adventure given Ms. McMillan wrote How Stella Got Her Groove Back. BZZZZTTTTT. Thanks for playing. The poignancy of the thing ran out in the middle; would have been suitable to end the book (or put it down) there. But alas, I thought, "Surely something better is waiting around this corner!" Not so much. While not outright awful, the book really petered out in the end, with the husband basically forgiven for having a Y chromosome, and the narrator forgiving herself for waiting for 'her time' to come. I would have loved at least one hot scene with a nude Gordon described for me in shockingly delicious detail!
Ladies, perhaps this is why I love non-fiction, because I am pretty tired of reading about women who are trying to remake themselves and their entire lives because they are just plain pretty tired of everything in their lives. We're probably all in the middle of this sentiment right now, each of us, no matter what we are doing or not doing, having or not having in our lives.
As a believer of pearls coming from irritation in the oyster, that happiness is a choice (in the absence of physical or emotional illness, abuse or tragedy), that openness to 'what is' is not optional, and that life sucks and sucks often and our real job is having fun despite this realization; I am definitely tiring of the "I am woman, and I'm not going to take this domesticity anymore" genre of books.
Unite, women of the page and plume!
With school back in session, reading anything other than texts will involve veritable moments...onward, through the fog!
Have a great weekend,
Robin
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3 comments:
My personal rule of thumb, if it has pink on the cover don't pick it up!
:)
If I may be so bold,some authors I enjoy consistently:
Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Nuala O'Faolain, Anne LaMott, Olive Ann Burns, Amy Tan (although the one I mentioned previously was a disappointment).
Judy
I'm especially fatigued by literary characters who work ALL THE WAY through their angst in under 300 pages. It's about as believable as when the CSI guys get their DNA results before the second commercial break. Besides, I already know about the middle class, middle aged, worried well. I read to go somewhere else.
Finely written review, BTW.
Does anyone know how to properly pronounce the name "Nuala"?
I've always wondered.
Robin..have you ever read Jennifer Crusie? It's COMPLETE and TOTAL fluff---brain candy my sister calls it--romance novels but they're hilarious and I laugh the whole way through. In one sitting if I can possibly ignore everything else that needs to be done. And there's usually pink on the cover. It's sort of embarrassing to admit I read a romance paperback here and there..but she is so doggone funny I don't care.
That's if you're sick of John P. Kotter's "Leading Change". :)
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