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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
by Lorna Landvik
I have never been so happy to discover a scheduling conflict.
This was a book club selection, and I realized today that I can't make it to this book club meeting. And while I did make it through the first 80 or so pages, I was dreading the discussion... I couldn't think of anything nice to say.
I won't give this a star rating (it seems unfair to rate something that I didn't finish) but I could tell right off the bat that this fell on the wrong side of my "show vs. tell" meter. The characters were caricatures, and the writing was cliche-ridden. Examples: The abusive husband who "smiled a mirthless smile" and a librarian "whose braided bun and eyeglass rims were the color of a steel filing cabinet" and a mixed-race baby whose skin was the color of... you can guess this one... yup. Coffee with cream.
Add to that a series of events that read less like life and more like scenes from something on Lifetime: Television for Women, and you've got yourself a recipe for something that I'm just not going to like.
This was a book club selection, and I realized today that I can't make it to this book club meeting. And while I did make it through the first 80 or so pages, I was dreading the discussion... I couldn't think of anything nice to say.
I won't give this a star rating (it seems unfair to rate something that I didn't finish) but I could tell right off the bat that this fell on the wrong side of my "show vs. tell" meter. The characters were caricatures, and the writing was cliche-ridden. Examples: The abusive husband who "smiled a mirthless smile" and a librarian "whose braided bun and eyeglass rims were the color of a steel filing cabinet" and a mixed-race baby whose skin was the color of... you can guess this one... yup. Coffee with cream.
Add to that a series of events that read less like life and more like scenes from something on Lifetime: Television for Women, and you've got yourself a recipe for something that I'm just not going to like.