I just found this book silly. It made me a bit angry as well. Here you have a woman that was happy at home but just a bit bored. Instead of taking chaI just found this book silly. It made me a bit angry as well. Here you have a woman that was happy at home but just a bit bored. Instead of taking charge she looked for excitement somewhere else, totally ignoring the attempts that her husband was making. She wasn't trying to escape from a bad marriage, she was just being lazy and self absorbed. A problem with a great deal of people these days.
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I started this book and immediately found myself drawn in. As the book continued I admit, I started to become angry with the wife. I can't imagine howI started this book and immediately found myself drawn in. As the book continued I admit, I started to become angry with the wife. I can't imagine how hard it would be to let go and accept someone whom you loved a great deal had died if they remained in contact with you. I really felt bad for the husband. As the book continued on more, I became outraged at this dead wife. I kept trying to put myself in her shoes. Why would she do this? I put myself in her husband's shoes. How awful it must have been for him. Why oh why would she do all of this? Why wouldn't she had just been honest and up front when she was alive?
As the book approached the ending... well, I finally understood. I can't say I agreed with her reasoning...or her methods...but I could finally understand to some degree.
Even when I was incredibly angry with these characters, I remained invested in this novel and couldn't put it down. I rushed thorugh it to make sure it would all turn out alright.
Sure, I figured out some of the "surprises" in the ending...however, the path I thought we would be taking to get there was different than I expected. I finished this novel and didn't feel any anger about emotional manipulation as I often do with these "surprise twists" at the end.
Sure, it might be a novel that I won't remember all the details next month, that happens a lot with me, but I have to say I really enjoyed this whilst I was reading it and I definitely know some mates that I would recommend this one to...very happy I picked this one to spend the day reading......more
I enjoyed the story. I also found myself laughing out loud more than once at the diary entries. I might have even gotten a wee bit emotional at the ruI enjoyed the story. I also found myself laughing out loud more than once at the diary entries. I might have even gotten a wee bit emotional at the running race.
However, I found myself getting a bit wound up more than one over the body shaming and name calling. I mean, Zoe and Greg faced discrimination daily. Faced judgement based solely on the size of their clothing. Yet they didn't seem to mind doing the same type things to people they knew who were overweight or those that weren't "perceived" as attractive.
Perhaps some might say I am being too politically correct. I don't care. Body shaming and any other shaming (be it how someone dresses or looks) really bothers me. More and more each day it seems. I don't want to lighten up over it. I don't care if you're making a joke about it. Or you're just being judgemental amongst yourselves. I don't think it's right.
I think it's a bit hypocritical to have two characters that are trying to change their lives because they are sickened by being judged or ashamed of how they look and feel and then have them turn around and do the same thing. Personally, it really turned me off and bothered me.
This would have been a great book for me if the main characthers could have had a wake up moment of realising that their size doesn't determine their worth...or that how someone dresses doesn't make them crazy. Or so many other things that bothered me here...but as it is, it was just okay for me... #sorrynotsorry...more
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