A review by jobinsonlis
Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America by Kathleen Rooney

3.0

I'm torn when it comes to rating this book because I mostly agreed with the author and that makes me like her because I'm a compulsive narcissist. So I should give her at least a four. However I didn't think that the different pieces of the book fit together very well (especially the epilogue) and I was frankly bored by her tangents about television, politics, and blogs. She would start off with a good point and then beat it to death with her earnestness. Of course the biggest problem could be that I really don't have an opinion about Oprah's Book Club or Oprah herself. I suppose I like her but I don't really think about her at all. The most passion I've ever felt was towards A New Earth, her pseudo-Buddhist pick in 2008, and that passion was largely irritation directed at the publishers for not meeting the huge demand the selection generated. I got really tired of people asking about it.