angela_o: (Betty Boop)
angela_o ([personal profile] angela_o) wrote2006-05-19 10:07 pm
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#40 is Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler. The writing was fine, but I never connected deeply with the characters. I haven't read any Tyler since The Accidental Tourist years ago and I'm beginning to think that her brand of quirky just doesn't jive with mine.

#41 was Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life : Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child by Faulkner Fox. While I often found the author not particularly likeable, this was an occasionally gripping look at a modern woman's viewpoint on being a wife and mother and how that fits with feminist sensibilities. I think that she might have benefited from some good mood stabilizers at certain points of her journey, but that's just me. I doubt Betty Boop had this much angst about gender roles and equality. ;)

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