Stori Telling

Of course once I listed to Mommywood I needed to listen to her other book. I know I should have gone in order but... This one was very short and easy to hear. It was interesting to hear how she and Dean had gotten together... I hadn't realized that they had both been married and that she was that unhappy. Her fear of confrontation really annoyed me in this story. Man the eff up and tell poor Charlie that you have never loved him! I mean come on.... no one likes doing things like that. And her relationship with her mother! ugh.... I mean I know i have one of the best relationships with my mom ever but seriously do be in the hospital having your baby and still managing to bitch about the fact that your mom has made it all about her! Your mom hasn't made it all about her you crazy... you giving her that power and thinking about her instead of your BRAND NEW baby made it all about her.

Her Fearful Symmetry

There isn't much I can say about this book without giving it all away but it is certainly similar to the Time Traveler's Wife where Niffenegger plays with the boundaries of time, space, death, life, ghosts, etc. I didn't dislike this book but what was happening during most of the story was rather frustrating becuase you never really understood the underlying reasons of certain characters. The whole premise of the book is based off one act that occurs at the end as well so you are reading for a long time before you start to understand why things are happening.

I'm just going to say the biggest thing that annoyed me is I believe in an afterlife and that a persons energy stays out there but I don't believe in ghosts hanging around and talking to us once a person has died. They are dead and they need to be unavailable to allow for people to move on!

Overall if you like Niffenegger read the book but don't expect anything amazing.

Mommywood

I listened to this book on audio because I could not bring myself to read it and I'm very happy I did becuase she is not a good writer. What she is, is a good storyteller and so listening to it I was able to focus more on the point of what she was trying to say versus what how she was saying it. Overall it was interesting...I also really enjoy listenign to a book during my commute. Much easier and lighter!

I didn't really like how much she repeated herself and said very obvious cliches about growing up famous. I get that she was trying to degrade herself and make us understand that even though she was rich she had what seemed like problems to her, but it just got old to me. I hadn't ever realized how self-conscious she was or how much of a self-image problem she had... it made me rather sad to listen to. I've had image problems but nothing to the extent she had.

Remember When

This was a fun, very easy read. It was a great murder, robbery, trickery story with a very hot romantic thread tied throughout. The weirdest part of it all was that it was two different stories tied together by one event but it tied through a number of years. But the writing style for each part was very different and I didn't like the second one nearly as much as the first one so it was rather sad when all of sudden only half the book was the story I really wanted to read!

But overall I def didn't want to put it down and I would totally suggest it for a great beach read.

Cutting For Stone

Well. I would never have chosen this book on my own -- but it was a book club selection. I knew it was long, but I kept putting it off because I was reading all sorts of exciting organic gardening books and the like. Suddenly I had three days to start and finish it -- and it was a bit of a chore, I must admit. It is set in Ethiopia -- or most of it is -- and the discussion of the country's politics left me a bit cold. In fact, I felt about 1/4 of the way into the book that absolutely nothing had happened of import other than the narrator being born, and he was just rambling ad nauseum about anything he could think of to convince me to STOP reading! LOL That is what it felt like.

The title comes from the fact that the twins father is a surgeon named Thomas Stone, and they are both ultimately doctors as well -- but the title, like much of the book, seemed like an afterthought.

There was never much in the way of action. I also figured out a few things, and lo and behold was right -- but by the time it was actually revealed amidst hundreds upon hundreds of words that could be edited out, I didn't really care. I guess that is really the bottom line. I never cared for the characters. They had little depth -- and perhaps that was a symptom of their childhood -- I don't know. But ultimately, I don't care.

It ended much as it started. It just did. And thankfully so!!!!