Goodnight Nobody (2005)
Jennifer Weiner
Rating: 3/5
[The 115: 8/155]
At first I was really disappointment with this book because it has a bit of an unfinished ending. Then I decided that an unfinished ending was better than an ending I didn’t like.
I just thought it was a weird decision to write a book about a character who never really makes a decision, end with her not making a decision. It kind of feels like the main character hasn’t learnt anything.
For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia's been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground
routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety.
When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is one of the most interesting things to happen in Upchurch since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though Kate's husband and the police chief warn her that crime-fighting's a job best left to professionals, she can't let it go.
So Kate launches an unofficial investigation — from 8:45 to 11:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school — with the help of her hilarious best friend, carpet heiress Janie Segal, and Evan McKenna, a former flame she thought she'd left behind in New York City.
As the search for the killer progresses, Kate is drawn deeper into the murdered woman's double life. She discovers the secrets and lies behind Upchurch's placid picket-fence facade — and the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between independence and obligation, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one's own.
So, it was good, but a more decisive ending would have made it better. According to the author’s website, she intentionally resolved the mystery but not the main character’s life. She may revisit the characters in a future book.
That’s annoyingly ambiguous… much like the ending.
Finished: Sunday 29/7
Jennifer Weiner
Rating: 3/5
[The 115: 8/155]
At first I was really disappointment with this book because it has a bit of an unfinished ending. Then I decided that an unfinished ending was better than an ending I didn’t like.
I just thought it was a weird decision to write a book about a character who never really makes a decision, end with her not making a decision. It kind of feels like the main character hasn’t learnt anything.
For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia's been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground
routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety.When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is one of the most interesting things to happen in Upchurch since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though Kate's husband and the police chief warn her that crime-fighting's a job best left to professionals, she can't let it go.
So Kate launches an unofficial investigation — from 8:45 to 11:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school — with the help of her hilarious best friend, carpet heiress Janie Segal, and Evan McKenna, a former flame she thought she'd left behind in New York City.
As the search for the killer progresses, Kate is drawn deeper into the murdered woman's double life. She discovers the secrets and lies behind Upchurch's placid picket-fence facade — and the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between independence and obligation, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one's own.
So, it was good, but a more decisive ending would have made it better. According to the author’s website, she intentionally resolved the mystery but not the main character’s life. She may revisit the characters in a future book.
That’s annoyingly ambiguous… much like the ending.
Finished: Sunday 29/7
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