Book Club time, yay!
Next up: Museum of Extraordinary Things // Alice Hoffman (classy cover, huh?). I’ve never read anything by Alice Hoffman before, and to be honest, probably never would have. This book caught my eye when it first came out because the cover intrigued me, but I never would have picked it up…but that’s just reason #147 why I love book club (ok, it’s really more like reason #6).
I just started it and am already gobbling it up. Her writing is impeccable (I guess that’s why millions of people love her so much. I assumed it was because women of the late nineties loved cheesy movies about magic…and anything that starred these fabulous ladies). Not sure how much this will inspire great conversation at our book club meeting, but what the hell, it’s fun. And sometimes girls just want to have fun.
Last month: Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress // Michael Drury
Last up was this little book that read more like a philosophical text than an eye-opening look at women’s sexuality in the sixties…and their presumed role in a marriage, the way I hoped it would. But…it really did make for an excellent book club meeting. We all had so much to talk about! For real. We talked more than we drank wine (sort of). We each had parts that didn’t sit well with us, we had passages underlined and dog-eared and we ultimately all had sections that totally resonated with us in our own relationships. Final verdict: it would have been a fascinating New Yorker article…not an entire book, even one as short as this.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
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