Happy Birthday!
Posted in Family on 07/13/2005 10:27 pm by enjanerdHappy birthday, Auntie!
So, there was supposed to be a book club meeting last night. Book to be discussed: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. There was no response from anyone to the person planning saying they were going to be able to make it, so the meeting got canceled. Now, to be honest, I’m incredibly relieved. Partly because I didn’t finish the book, but mostly because of the reason I didn’t finish the book: it sucked.
To be fair, it’s far from the worst book I’ve come across (I hadn’t thought about it before though, so I don’t have a worst book list… yet.), but it was like a wannabe romance novel. That’s not to say that I like real romance novel. I’ve never really understood the appeal. But even so, the last chapter that I read is a great example of why this book is not my thing: A woman, after her husband dies, has an erotic dream where her husband comes back and “knows†her in the form of a moth. Uhh… Maybe I misinterpreted that. But if there is something in a book that could be interpreted that way, it’s not really my kind of book.