Funny You Should Ask
Writers writing about writing, but there it is. Like me, I want to be a serious writer.
“What if that was the kind of writer I was? The kind of writer I’d always be?” Page 30.
So there is that. Posited as a summer read, and now that summer’s lease should be up? I still wanted light and fluffy.
“It seems like Mercury is always in retrograde these days.” Page 70.
Always nice to see in pop culture.
There’s a sidestep, done in a modern format with web-driven derived content concocted different bylines, all in a single narrative, flowing back and forth, but tightly woven like (mostly) waterproof nylon pack-cloth. Different authors, but just one voice. Stylish and quick, updated epistolary format.
Interwoven with that format, there’s a splashing back and forth between the timelines, “Then,” and “now.” Past haunting, the present, and that’s not new, but is does happen.
What so irritated me about the book?
It’s boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and the conclusion? They live happily ever after. I didn’t see that at the beginning, and the notation that it is merely romance doesn’t do the novel or its story justice, or “chick lit,” but whatever genre? I thorourghly enjoyed the story-telling and the pacing was superb.
One of the hottest sex scenes, and it doesn’t happen until the end, but with that? It’s not over.
Took little getting used to, but the voice was assured, and the people felt very real.
Good book. Highly recommended for lightweight, but fun stories.
(It was high the library’s “you should try” list, and I’m glad I did.)
Funny You Should Ask
