2023 PopSugar Challenge: a book that takes place in a single day

Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


2.5 but I rounded up.

Eleanore is a 50 year old stay at home mom who tells herself that today she's going to do things differently. She's going to put on a dress, focus on the book she has been contracted to do, make her son a priority and maybe initiate sex with her surgeon husband.

But then her son fakes a stomach ache at school to get out early, she learns her husband has told his office the family is on vacation (only they are not) so she suspects the worst, she learns her book deal is defunct due to her editor and her manager both no longer in the business and a former employee of hers suddenly returns to her life after 10 years.

You know... just a normal day.

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I found this book to be just eh. While I didn't actively hate Eleanore, she got on my nerves. I disliked how she spoke to and treated her son Timby (don't ask), the way she reacted to what her husband was actually done was way out of line and frankly I had no sympathy for her upon learning about her book deal.

If this book is any indication of the author's writing and characters I may have to pass on her other book Where'd You Go, BernadetteWhere'd You Go, Bernadette



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