Tuesday, November 29, 2005
In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner (Entertaining)
I finished reading “In Her Shoes” last night. I was sad when it was over. The story is about two sisters. Maggie (the younger sister) is twenty-eight years old, who has never held a job for more than three months, and likes to party on somebody else's dime. Maggie has never been good academically and that makes her feel inferior to her older sister Rose who effortlessly finished law school and landed a job as junior partner at an esteemed firm. Rose reluctantly allows Maggie in her apartment when Maggie runs out of money but kicks her out when she discovers her boyfriend in bed with her sister.Maggie moves to Florida when she comes to know of a grandmother she never knew she had and she gradually makes a place for herself in her nanna’s heart. Rose quits her job and becomes a dog walker, not wanting to learn the whereabouts of her sister. When she finds out that Maggie is in Florida with the grandmother she also never met, Rose flies down for a family reunion. It is up to Maggie to make it up for all the injuries that she caused to her sister.
This story made me miss my older sister who I love so dearly. I could identify with the “caring older sister”. My sister has always been there for me and she has taken care of me ALL the time.
The thing that spoilt it for me was that I kept picturing Maggie as Cameron Diaz and Rose as Toni Collette. That’s what happens when you read a book after it has been made into a movie.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb (Good)
I read this book a few months ago and this was my first one by Wally Lamb. I wasn’t quiet sure what to expect. It was a shocker to me that such a sensitive story could be written by a man!“She’s Come Undone” is a story about an overweight girl – Dolores Price – who must cope with her parents' bad marriage, her mother's breakdown, and a move to her grandmother's house. Dolores is already unpopular at school, bullied by girls in her class and barely able to cope with her difficult grandmother. Her problems only increase when handsome Jack Spreight and his wife move into the apartment her grandmother rents. It takes a tragedy for Dolores to decide to give college a try, but she finds that she still doesn't fit in any better than she fits into the jeans she constantly wears. Confused, Dolores is alone and doesn't know what to do or where to go. When she hits rock bottom, things start to look up.
Few parts of the book get a bit depressing and her dysfunctional family is a bit difficult to take. Overall, the book has an eccentric quality to it and is surely worth a read. I recently bought Wally Lamb’s, “I know this much is true” and am looking forward to reading that too.
