1. What are you currently reading? Little Gloria ... Happy at Last by Barbara Goldsmith. I wear Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. I watch Anderson Cooper. So I'm not unfamiliar with Gloria. But I admit I know little about the 1930s custody case that once captured the nation's imagination.
It's fascinating, filled with intrigue and legal shenanigans and sex and rumors about sex. And at the heart of it all is a diffident little girl. I can't tell who wants Little Gloria for herself, and who wants her for control of her trust fund.
This book is well written, but it's filled with a lot of people -- lawyers and secretaries and maids and aunts and cousins, etc. I find myself stopping and thinking: "So Gloria's mother didn't trust Tom ... Who is Tom again?" So this 600+ page tome is going to be slow going. Thank goodness Goldsmith did such a good job of recreating the time and place, so it holds my interest.
2. What did you recently finish reading? The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella. This is a silly book. Now that's not necessarily a knock -- I grew up on I Love Lucy and screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby, so I'm very capable of being entertained by zany antics. But I want you to know just what to expect if you pick up this book.
Samantha is a workaholic lawyer
who loses her job suddenly and in a most public and humiliating way. Through a series of misunderstandings, finds
herself hired as a housekeeper in a big, beautiful house on the English
countryside. She doesn't know how to cook, sew or clean, so she's not exactly a natural for this line of work. Lots of hijinks ensue. Some are very funny. None bear any resemblance to anything that could happen on Planet Earth.
I'm not sorry I read it. I enjoyed it. But I know I won't recall a thing about it a year from now.
I'm not sorry I read it. I enjoyed it. But I know I won't recall a thing about it a year from now.
3. What will you read next? Michelle Obama's autobiography. Unless I change my mind.
Little Gloria sounds interesting. That's not a case I was familiar with at all (I mean, and I have no idea who she is, really lol). I have trouble with too many people in books, though. I have a really hard time following. I'm interested to see what you think of Michelle Obama's autobiography, as I haven't read it yet but I've heard a lot of people speak highly of it. :)
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