I'm not sure what to think about this book. I'm definitely disappointed as it didn't live up to some of the glowing reviews I read about it. It seemed as if certain things about the characters were forced in order to make them like the characters in Sense and Sensibility. I absolutely couldn't st...
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. It's quite funny in parts and I loved that the three main characters ranged in age from almost 50 to 70 something. I thought the author captured the inner lives of the characters beautifully and wittily. I laughed in embarrassed sympathy rather often. I give i...
What if a female scholar, neurotic (but not so talkative) as a Woody Allen character, resented her husband for succumbing to a mid-life crisis (before he actually succumbed to one), and lapsed into her own? What if her reading of eighteenth-century philosophy and pornography penetrated her psych...
When Jane Barlow Schwartz and I were 25 years old, we finalized our Connecticut divorces. We had, each of us, married too soon. We never knew our boyfriends-fiancés-husbands-ex-husbands until it was far too late. We didn't know ourselves, either, and so the marriages ended. We needed to grow up.H...
I don't know why I continued to read this all the way to the finish. All I can say is that the premise that middle-aged children often find themselves becoming the parent to their parents. In this case, Elizabeth is trying to care for her grandmother Lotte who is suffering from skin cancer. Lo...