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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

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Reason for Reading:
  • I heard about this book last year while attending school.

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Summary from GoodReads:

Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known–a house with a garden where “the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched.”

My Review:

Wide Sargasso Sea is the story that Charlotte Bronte did not tell – and Jean Rhys’s masterful job in doing so. I had first heard about this book in an introduction to literature class I took Fall of ’11, but although my interest was caught, I was floundering under the heavy weight of homework and recovering from a car accident, so the title got pushed to the back of my mind.

Then, Spring ’12, in my British Lit class, once again the title came up. We had been discussing Jane Eyre and Bertha – the mad woman in the attic, and batting around various theories. One of the theories that caught my interest was how Bertha was the parts of Jane that she had suppressed through years of practice. This was brought to mind especially with the similarities between the two characters. But then, once again, the title of Wide Sargasso Sea was put onto the board and I remembered that this was one I wanted to read.

Then, fairly recently, an article was posted to Twitter of “modern literary adaptations” of classics that should be read. Once again, there was Jean Rhys’s book .. so excuses aside, off to the library I went.

Wide Sargasso Sea is a short, but meaty read. I actually read the book twice – two afternoons in a row. The story is one of Antoinette (known later as Bertha) and the path that led to her madness. Jean Rhys gives a powerful voice to the mad woman in the attic and, as expected, the story behind Bertha was a tragic one which parts a very unflattering picture of Mr. Rochester.

If you would like to keep a romantic ideal of Mr. Rochester, I’d recommend steering clear of this title – however if you, like me, love Jane Eyre and would like to see Bertha given a voice (because, really people, she was LOCKED away in an attic), then I recommend picking this book up and letting it blow your mind a little.



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Lydia
30 June, 2012
Classics, Literary Fiction, reviews
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Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale

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Reason for Reading:
  • The idea of reading a Victorian woman’s diary was… thrilling.

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Summary from GoodReads:

Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson at age 31 in 1844. Her first husband had died suddenly, leaving his estate to a son from a previous marriage, so she inherited nothing. A successful civil engineer, Henry moved them, by then with two sons, to Edinburgh’s elegant society in 1850. But Henry traveled often and was cold and remote when home, leaving Isabella to her fantasies.

No doubt thousands of Victorian women faced the same circumstances, but Isabella chose to record her innermost thoughts—and especially her infatuation with a married Dr. Edward Lane—in her diary. Over five years the entries mounted—passionate, sensual, suggestive. One fateful day in 1858 Henry chanced on the diary and, broaching its privacy, read Isabella’s intimate entries. Aghast at his wife’s perceived infidelity, Henry petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery. Until that year, divorce had been illegal in England, the marital bond being a cornerstone of English life. Their trial would be a cause celebre, threatening the foundations of Victorian society with the specter of “a new and disturbing figure: a middle class wife who was restless, unhappy, avid for arousal.” Her diary, read in court, was as explosive as Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, just published in France but considered too scandalous to be translated into English until the 1880s.

My Review:

Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace is one of those books which puts me right dead center, making it very difficult to review. So I’m going to split this review into two parts and leave it up to you to decide if this is a book that’s up your alley.

Story: The story here is fantastic. It’s a lesson in feminism, a look at the issues and trials facing a bored housewife in a time where that is what a respectable lady was. Think Madame Bovary – but this time written by a woman and in such a way that tidbits of her diary are cropping up everywhere, allowing the reader to live in this sort of omnipresent place.

The story is strong enough that it almost (ALMOST) overcomes what bothered me most about the book. I wanted to know everything there was to know about Mrs. Robinson. I wanted to know just how she fell in love, or lust, why she felt about her second-born the way she did, and many other secrets that get revealed through the course of the book. Those questions were enough to propel me through the book.

Telling: This is where the book fell massively short for me – and I think had I not been a student recently, and preparing to be one again this fall, it would not have been quite so noticeable to me. That said, this entire novel read like a research paper – complete with quotes (although lacking citations). The telling was so dry and so researched-sounding, that it made me think I was reading an incredibly long presentation paper on the life of a Victorian woman.

So, there’s my two-sided review. I don’t want to reveal to much in this review, because like I said earlier, Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace has an amazing story to tell.


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Lydia
29 June, 2012
Historical, reviews, Social Issues
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The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

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A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita to make it big in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle is a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip. She has no idea what she’s in for: Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous blunt bangs and black bob, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will change their lives forever. For Cora, New York holds the promise of discovery that might prove an answer to the question at the center of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in a strange and bustling city, she embarks on her own mission. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, it liberates her in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of the summer, Cora’s eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.

My Review:

Okay, seriously – when I first heard about The Chaperone it was through Twitter, and it was because I’d just finished listening to Rules of Civility and loved every second of it. Folks, I am not joking – this book was amazing. It completely lived up to the hype of my ranting and raving over Rules of Civility and, not only that, it reminded me of one of my favorite books of all time: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

This is the story of a mature woman, Cora Carlisle, and an adventure that takes her to New York, New York as the chaperone of a young, impulsive Louise Brooks. The story shifts around, from past – detailing the treatment of orphans and the dangers of being alone as a child during the turn of the century – to future, taking us through the later end of Cora’s life. And through it all, there is the portrait of Louise Brooks.

This book is in my top three for 2012. It’s gorgeous (look at that cover), has the perfect name, the perfect “hook,” deals with older women while accurately portraying not only the prejudices of the time, but also making an attempt to show how views began to change and how progress startles everyone as it happens.

While reading The Chaperone I was reminded of some of my favorite books while growing up, written by Grace Livingston Hill. I had always loved her books because black and white were so easily marked. The good girls wore their skirts at a respectable level, did not go out alone with boys, did not drink anything more scandalous than a soda-pop, never wore make-up, and lived modestly within their means. The bad girls always sported red lipstick, short skirts, bobbed hair, and pushed against the status quo. When I was a teenager, I loved these stories. Now, as a woman with experience behind her, I look for something more like The Chaperone – a book that blurs the line between black and white and, instead of giving us clear-cut molds to fit into, offers up the idea that people change over time, and what was considered right and good one year might not be the same the next.

This is a novel I highly recommend – it’s not really “chick-lit,” and I think men would enjoy the story just as much. It’s a fantastic story about the life of a woman who struggles to keep up with the times – and I think that’s pretty much a universal message.


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Lydia
28 June, 2012
Favorites, Historical, Literary Fiction, reviews, Social Issues
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The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

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  • I’ve been a huge fan of Christ Bohjalian since first reading The Double Bind.

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Summary from GoodReads:

When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents’ ornate Pelham home was affectionately nicknamed the “Ottoman Annex,” Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.

My Review:

The Sandcastle Girls reminds me, in some ways, of Bohjalian’s book Skeletons at the Feast – however in The Sandcastle Girls things get a bit more personal – and it’s noticeable.

Bohjalian uses some of his own family history to help in influencing the movement of the story and dives into a tale of the Armenian genocide that occured in 1916-1917 – when the US was still neutral and Germany and Turkey were allied. The Sandcastle Girls portrays so well the struggles the German allies were faced with (little knowing what what come in the future) as they witnessed the untold atrocities being visited not only the Armenian men – but the women and children as well.

Bohjalian pulls no punches in this novel. But instead of using gratuitous violence (aside from a few well-placed moments) he lays out each and every word of what the Armenian people lived with – and those words lay there, stark and unforgiving on the paper in such a way that I couldn’t help but start crying.

The reason those words were so powerful, however, is because now I had names, albeit fictional ones, and fictional characters to connect them to. Not only that, I knew these people were representative, in a small way, of real people and real issues that, frankly, I had never been aware of. Why are we not told about this? Why isn’t this common knowledge? In all my readings of WWI, I never once came across the information on this genocide.

In addition to the historical aspect of this novel, however, is a love story fraught with grief, hope, despair, and lies. An odd combination perhaps, but that is what I’ve come to expect from Bohjalian’s books.

I very much recommend this book as well to fans of Alice Hoffman’s The Dovekeepers – but even if you didn’t like that book, or never read it, please pick this one up and give it a shot. I think you will find yourself to be caught up in the story just as much as I was.


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Lydia
27 June, 2012
Historical, reviews
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The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey

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  • This one has been on my wishlist for a while – I’m a huge fan of Jane Eyre and with a setting in Scotland I couldn’t resist.

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Summary from GoodReads:

Fate has not been kind to Gemma Hardy. Orphaned by the age of ten, neglected by a bitter and cruel aunt, sent to a boarding school where she is both servant and student, young Gemma seems destined for a life of hardship and loneliness. Yet her bright spirit burns strong. Fiercely intelligent, singularly determined, Gemma overcomes each challenge and setback, growing stronger and more certain of her path. Now an independent young woman with dreams of the future, she accepts a position as an au pair on the remote and beautiful Orkney Islands.

But Gemma’s biggest trial is about to begin . . . a journey of passion and betrayal, secrets and lies, redemption and discovery that will lead her to a life she’s never dreamed.

My Review:

The Flight of Gemma Hardy was a tricky book for me. I picked it up on a cool evening and settled in to escape into a 1960′s Scotland, ready to revisit some of the same elements from Jane Eyre that make the classic a favorite – and within the first few pages I was hooked.

I devoured the story of Gemma as she struggled with her Aunt and cousins and was shipped off to a boarding school. I was hypnotized by the descriptions of school life, working life, and her struggles to find a place for herself. And about 1/4th of the way through the book I put it down to look at my sister and tell her, “This is a great book!”

Then something happened – and I don’t know if it is because it’s tied to my least favorite part in Jane Eyre, or whether it was because the writing itself got confusing – but things started going downhill. I struggled to make the more modern connection of just why a marriage between Gemma and Hugh was bad, why there was such an issue with it all. Then came the more fanciful scenes with the running away of the main character and introduction of so many characters it made my head dizzy.

So as much as I enjoyed the first quarter of the book, the final half made my head hurt and every bit of enjoyment I had fled, unfortunately. As much as I was looking forward to a modern re-telling of the classic, there are just so many elements that wouldn’t work in a modern-day setting that the result ends up jumbled and messy.

However, the reading was not a total bust- because I did truly love the first part of the book. It was fantastic, and the book is worth the read just for that part.


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Lydia
26 June, 2012
Contemporary, Gothic, Historical, reviews
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It’s Monday, what are you reading?

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

So this week was filled with wedding planning (as my sister is getting married on July 1!) and garage sale hosting (by the way, I’m selling a Kindle 2 + leather case, let me know if you are interested!).  I still managed to get a good chunk of reading done, as evidenced by the list below!

Books I’ve read this past week (Links to reviews):

  1. Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
  2. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
  3. The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesly
  4. Imperfect Bliss by Susan Fales-Hill
Gave-up On:
  1. It by Stephen King – this book just did not hold my attention, even 300+ pages in.
Books reviewed this past week:
  1. The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  2. Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
  3. Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
  4. Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter
  5. Never Tell by Alafair Burke

Books to read this week:

Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel

Advent by  James Treadwell

Juliet in August by Dianne Warren

Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon

Earth to Hell by Kylie Chan 

Dark Companion by  Marta Acosta 



Lydia
24 June, 2012
Books, memes
15 comments

Never Tell by Alafair Burke

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  • Received an email letting me know about this title and took the bait – it looked good!

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Summary from GoodReads:

Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire appeared to have everything: a famous father, a luxurious Manhattan townhouse, a coveted spot at the elite Casden prep school. When she is found dead in her bathtub, a handwritten suicide note left on her bed, her parents insists that their daughter would never take her own life.

But Julia’s enviable life was more complicated than it seemed. The pressure to excel at Casden was enormous. Abuse of prescription anti-depressants and drugs for attention-deficit hyperactivity ran rampant among students; an unlabeled bottle of pills in Julia’s purse suggests she had succumbed to the trend. And a search of Julia’s computer reveals that in the days leading up to her death, she was engaged in a dangerous game of cyberbullying against an unlikely victim.

NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced the case is a suicide, but she knows from personal experience that a loving family can be the last to accept the truth. When the Whitmires use their power to force a criminal investigation, Ellie’s resistance causes trouble for her both at work and in her personal life.

As she is pressured to pursue a case she doesn’t believe in, she is pulled into Julia’s inner circle—an eclectic mix of overly precocious teenagers from Manhattan’s most privileged families as well as street kids she met in Greenwich Village. But when the target of Julia’s harassment continues to receive death threats, Ellie is forced to acknowledge that Julia may have learned the hard way that some secrets should never be told.

My Review:

Never Tell was my first experience with the writing of Alafair Burke. I decided to pick up this book on a whim, because lately I’ve been craving a bit of good crime fiction – mostly because it’s what I used to read voraciously back in the day and I rarely get to it (although Tana French is fantastic and will always be high on my list).

I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw in this book. Gone is the super-sexy, put-together crime detective that I’d come to expect with these types of books (think Kate Beckett on Castle) – and instead I was given Ellie – a detective with more than just flaws in her background. She makes mistakes, and she has to live with those mistakes and that’s what pushed this book above the churned out crime books that I’ve experienced in the past.

Never Tell is the story of a 16 year old suicide – but was it suicide? Wealth, power, technology, deceit, lies – everything factors into this story, which is, by the way, sectioned into nice headings which let you know which person Ellie is currently after.

I thoroughly enjoyed the ride this book took me on. Honestly, I had no idea “who done it,” and didn’t really care until the end because I was just sitting back and getting a thrill from the ride.

My one complaint is that this book is labeled as a suspense novel and never once did I get that feeling of suspense. There were no real moments when I was thinking of biting my nails, and when I think suspense books – that’s what I think about doing because sadly, I am a nail-biter. Other than that though, I recommend Never Tell – especially if you are a fan of crime fiction … but who am I kidding? I bet you already know about Alafair Burke!

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Lydia
23 June, 2012
Contemporary, Crime, Mystery, reviews
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Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter

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  • The cover. It snagged me. I admit it.

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Becoming immortal wasn’t supposed to be the easy part. Though Kate is about to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, she’s as isolated as ever. And despite her growing love for Henry, ruler of the Underworld, he’s becoming ever more distant and secretive. Then, in the midst of Kate’s coronation, Henry is abducted by the only being powerful enough to kill him: the King of the Titans.

As the other gods prepare for a war that could end them all, it is up to Kate to save Henry from the depths of Tartarus. But in order to navigate the endless caverns of the Underworld, Kate must enlist the help of the one person who is the greatest threat to her future.

Henry’s first wife, Persephone.

My Review:

Okay, I’m going to confess. I succumbed to an incredible amount of cover pressure when it comes to Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter. There were a number of reasons why I shouldn’t have picked this book up (and liked it!).

First, I’m almost always disappointed by covers like this – well, not by the cover but the content inside. Secondly, I haven’t read the first book of the Goddess Test series, and picking up book two first is a big nono for me. Third .. it’s a young adult romance and I’ve had it with them.

Those reasons said, there was one huge reason I picked up the book in spite of all of my instincts screaming NO! I had just read a really dark, intense book and I wanted something light and fluffy and I love, love, love Greek mythology. So I gave it a go.

Folks – I DEVOURED Goddess Interrupted. I read it in one straight sitting and I could not tear myself away from it. I was thirsty for the last 10% of the book! But could I be bothered to get a drink? No.. because I needed to know!

Even though this was the second book in the series, the story is not so complicated that I couldn’t get into it and get the gist of what happened in book 1 – and I’m glad I started with book 2 because I think book 1 might have turned me off when it comes to the series. As it was … I still wanted to smack Kate around a little bit, but I still, I was hugely entertained and had a lot of fun seeing the Greek myths come to life and interact with one another.

Final result – surprised me (and I rated it well as a result), hugely entertaining, and the perfect read for a day on the beach.


 

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Lydia
22 June, 2012
Fantasy, reviews, Romance, Young Adult
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Erebos by Ursula Poznanski

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  • Video Games and Reading are two of my addictive hobbies – combine the two? Yup, you got me interested.

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Summary from GoodReads:

An intelligent computer game with a disturbing agenda.

When 16-year-old Nick receives a package containing the mysterious computer game Erebos, he wonders if it will explain the behavior of his classmates, who have been secretive lately. Players of the game must obey strict rules: always play alone, never talk about the game, and never tell anyone your nickname.

Curious, Nick joins the game and quickly becomes addicted. But Erebos knows a lot about the players and begins to manipulate their lives. When it sends Nick on a deadly assignment, he refuses and is banished from the game.

Now unable to play, Nick turns to a friend for help in finding out who controls the game. The two set off on a dangerous mission in which the border between reality and the virtual world begins to blur. This utterly convincing and suspenseful thriller originated in Germany, where it has become a runaway bestseller.

My Review:

Erebos is unreal. I mean, Ursula Poznanski must have played some MMORPGS (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games for those of you not in the know – think World of Warcraft) in her time because she has managed to capture, within Erebos, the addiction, the need to play, the drive to do anything to get that chance to play – and then turn that to make a thrilling, hold on-to-your-hats type of story that had me racing to the end.

Nick seems like your all around normal 16-year-old kid with parent issues. His mom and dad are pretty neglectful, as tends to be the case in books which require not a lot of supervision to work. However things start getting a little crazy when he notices strange things happening at school and he hasn’t been let in on the secret – but some other definitely not-cool types are in on it.

The real story begins when Nick is let in on the secret – and let me tell you, it’s a whopper. I could feel my old gaming addiction starting to stir as I read descriptions of what began and was frightened to see the lengths that he would go to in order to continue playing. Why was I frightened? Because I could relate to him more than I wanted to.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in gaming. It’s a “should-read” for parents who have kids dealing with MMO addictions – it’ll give you a little bit of insight into how this addiction works and what it does – that little feeling of accomplishment you get with each level up, that thrill when you get a new piece of armor. It’s not as innocent as it seems at first – trust me, I devoted 10 years of my life to it.

Pick this one up for a thrilling, informative, interesting ride.

 

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Lydia
21 June, 2012
Contemporary, reviews, Suspense/Thriller, Young Adult
9 comments
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Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon

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Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.

But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).

And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.

My Review:

Okay, so if you are anything like me, you look at the title of this book and think this is a book about a man with multiple wives – 22 (at least) of them in fact.  Well.. that’s not what Wife 22 is about so throw those preconceptions out the window because what I’m about to tell you will, hopefully, have you rushing to the store or library to check this book out.

Wife 22 begins as one of your typical chick-lit type stories about a man and a woman and their marriage.  But what makes this one stand out from the crowd, and it is a crowd – there’s a lot of mediocre chick-lit out there folks, is the humor and intelligence displayed throughout the novel.

Alice Buckle is a modern woman – and this story is told through a variety of mediums: Facebook (status and messages), emails, acts of a play, short stories, and regular prose.  There is never a dull moment and the method of communication between Alice (Wife 22) and Researcher 101 teases the curiosity until the questions being asked just don’t matter anymore because you want to read the answers.  Kind of like Jeopardy – maybe…okay, so not but you get the idea.

Alice has a husband, a daughter (Zoe) and a son (Peter..er Pedro..er…, you’ll understand).  She deals with things that any modern mother would deal with, worries about eating disorders, the sexuality of her son (he’s 12.. but she’s trying so hard), and how to handle that first time that her daughter comes home drunk (it’s brilliant).  But behind it all she is struggling, and her struggle is so real, and her support system so incredible, that I could not help but feel pulled in and wanting to find out how it is all resolved.

This was a fun, quick read and perfect for a day at the beach, or sitting out on your porch enjoying some sunshine.  It’s a book that made me feel as if my time wasn’t wasted, and I count that a win when it comes to light fiction like this.

 

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Lydia
20 June, 2012
Contemporary, reviews, Social Issues
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