mirel 's review for:

Life on the Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and Daughter by Alice Kuipers

3.0

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The book was engaging, and a real quick read, because many of the pages had only a sentence or two on them. And while I thought that the idea was very clever, I found the character/situation very unbelievable. Would an educated mother in her profession really be without a phone? Would she really not realize the significance of what she was going through? Would she really leave such sensitive information on a note and not wait to discuss it face to face? I know that it's necessary for the refrigerator note idea, but it just didn't work for me. The story does pull on the heart strings, and the characters did grow, but my skepticism about the nature of some of the notes made it no more than a three for me. I liked it, but I didn't love it.