Book Review: Goodnight Nobody

Book Review: Goodnight Nobody
By Jennifer Weiner

Take suburbia, take cookie-cutter, large, new homes, take the scariest uber, super-dee-dooper mom you know and magnify her, then multiply her, put it all together along with some literal backstabbing…and you have the backdrop for Goodnight Nobody.

Kate Klein is a former-reporter who has 3 children who are all 3 and under. Due to a stroller-napping int he big city, she finds herself safely tucked away in the Land of the Lost, i.e. suburbia. It all seems like a typical ‘I don’t fit in, please help me God’ day until she arrives at a playdate to find the uberest super-mommy lying in a puddle of her own blood. Kate slips into detective mode (but only while her children are in playschool) and resolves that come hell or high water, she will solve this crime. Naturally, she ruffles many feathers, freaks out her over-protective husband and maybe, just maybe, collects the attention of a former flame.

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Wed-ness-day

I’m happy to say I don’t have to deal with this kind of thing.

Get out of a blind date.

And

Psycho–I think I know this guy..

All I gotta say is: OMG.

Trim, Trim, Trim Challenge: Update 11

Still plugging away. I’ve had a headful of snot crowding the language lobe in my brain. So, I’ve been a little slow. However, I am pleased to mention that I am now down to 94, 533 words. That’s over 10,000 words I will likely never miss cut and released into the great world of binaries.

Separate note: Crispy Minis are no longer my friend. My daughter is trying to eat through a stack of 4 or 5. Imagine the crumbs. Then imagine some more. See how wide spread they are? Yes, it is amazing. Please note that I have no aspirations of attaining Domestic Goddess status. Now, imagine those crumbs again. Imagine my pain. Now, imagine the cooling relief of owning a Dustbuster and teaching a youngster how to use it.

Book Review: Still Alice

Book Review: Still Alice
By: Lisa Genova

Alice is a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology. She has just turned 50 and been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. While smart enough to find ways to hide her diminishing memory skills, she eventually finds she has to reveal her secret, causing her trusted colleagues to treat her differently and slowly, lose everything she has worked so hard for.

Unable to deal with the idea of losing everything that makes her ‘Alice’, she creates a system that will help her keep an eye on herself. When she is no longer Alice, she has a plan that will help her pull the plug. But will she remember?

An interesting thing happened to me as I read this book. I began to feel almost as though I was the one with Alzheimer’s. No, I wasn’t forgetting things, but if I had just put down the book, my actions would be very conscious, almost as though I was keeping tabs on my own memory abilities. I was being Alice. For example, after reading the part where Alice’s husband, John, wrote a note in big, black letters on their fridge ‘Alice, don’t go running without me’, I put down the book and headed to the grocery store. But before I opened the back door, I paused. Was I allowed to go to the grocery store alone? That’s how deeply this story affected me. That’s how deep I crawled inside.

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I’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

I’m pasting old blog posts from 2 years ago into WordPress and all I gotta say is, I’ve come a long way. I read over some of those posts and I want to edit them! I want to clean up the writing, add hyphens, rearrange sentences and a lot more. I’m not though. They need to remain as a reminder of where I’ve come from. I sure have gotten a lot more serious and ‘about the business’ in my posts though–holy smokes!

One of my first posts surprised me. I forgot what a noob (newbie) I was when it came to the humongous world of writing. I had not a clue. I owe a huge thank you to all those literary agents blogging their little hearts out as well as the community over at AgentQuery. Those two things have been huge in helping me get to where I am today–a better writer who has her head in the game (and knows which room the game happens to located as well).