This book is going to Rhonder in Canada in an M-bag. I hope she has time to write a synopsis.

Thank you lovemylife!

"Beattie's most comic - indeed her first satiric - work to date ... Much of the book's authenticity derives from the accretion of felt detail - a Beattie trademark. She captures 1984 Vermont with right-on references to Cyndi Lauper, Horchow catalogs, and 'pre-Cabbage Patch' Coleco."

Sending to tabby-cat-owner along with a couple bookmarks from the wishlist tag game!

I received this in the mail from Rhonder of St. Paul, Alberta, Canada who tagged me in the wishlist tag game.

I've always wanted to read a book by Ann Beattie. Thank you so much for sending this to me.

This book was donated awhile ago to the General Literature VBB organized by bookstogive, however if you would like this book, please feel free to ask me for it. The first person who requests it gets the book.

(I will then donate another book to the VBB.) I am currently reading this book.

NOTE: I removed this book from the General Literature VBB because none of the participants had requested it. However, shortly after, I removed this book, I got an opportunity to donate it to another vbb. See next journal entry.

This book has been donated to the Already Book Crossed virtual bookbox, also referred to as the abc vbb. The abc vbb is organized by booklady331.

I am still slowing reading this book. Please don't let that stop you from requesting this book. I am nearing the end of the book.

This book reminds why I had a hard time finding a good book to read in the 80's and had to resort to books written in earlier decades. Although the writing is good and easy to read, the story itself was not interesting or fun to read. I would say that the author is trying to write a pseudo-existentialist book like the Colette books that I had to read while taking French. But the French are quite sophisticated and handle a meaningless life with much more style than idiot Americans of the 1980's described in this book who hadn't the slightest idea about how to get any enjoyment out of life, and the more privileged you are, the more inept you are at enjoying life.

Sociologically speaking, I would say that the values that were cast out during the social revolution that was going in the 1960's resulted in spineless idiots such as the ones described in this book who did not know how to value much of anything. In spite of all this, America seems to have gotten itself back on track, so to speak, with valuing the important things of life or even valuing things that it shouldn't value which I think is preferable to the moral lethargy pictured in this book.

This book was left on the bookshelf in the Starbucks located on the southwest corner of 7th Street and Thunderbird Road.

It was released for the Valentine release challenge.

I found this just where it was left. At starbucks at 7th street and Tbird in Phoenix. I am taking it home to read. I will release it after it is read.