I got this from the local thrift shop.

What a clutz...I'm registering this book after I've sent it off to Collectorkerri.
I hope she enjoys it, since I wasn't able to get past the 1st chapter.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Collectorkerri, thanks for hosting the 1st sentences VBB and thanks for your patience since I registered and made released notes after you actually got the book!!
At least...I hope you enjoy the book!!

Received over the weekend. This book is part of my First Sentences Virtual Bookbox, in which participants submit only the first sentence of the books they've chosen. BookCrossers who choose each book don't know until they've received the book what the title and author are. The first sentence of this book is "'Do you think you're a nymphomaniac,' Bill wants to know." Sounds provocative.

Well, I said the book sounded provocative in my first journal entry, and that was true enough, but a lot of it just made me sad. Jane Juska is from a generation of women that denied themselves an awful lot in terms of self-fulfillment in service to a world that believed all they had to offer was their service as wives and mothers. As a result, she and many women like her believed themselves unworthy of love and sex and tried to squelch those feelings in themselves. This book is the result of a woman in her mid-60s who decided she didn’t want to live that way anymore. It reads very much like a proto-Eat, Pray, Love, although I think I liked that book better. I just never quite connected with Jane, having been born a few decades after her into a somewhat different world for expectations of women.

The book is currently on the list for a nonfiction bookbox, so it will sit here until it is chosen by another reader.

This book was on the list for a virtual bookbox for two rounds, so I decided to replace it and wild release it in my Little Free Library. Maybe it will find a reader there.