I'm trying to read Emily Giffins latest book, Heart of the Matter.

Trying.

Reading chick lit shouldn't be such a chore, should it?

Every day I think I'm not going to continue but I'm too lazy to go look through my book shelves for something better.

I really liked Something Borrowed, Ms. G.s first novel.  Even though the main character is a a horrible, horrible person.

But this is the fourth I've read and I realized that Something Blue is the only one of her books in which the main character has a single redeeming quality.  In that book, the main character starts out as a self absorbed prima dona and becomes a decent person, which made for a fun read.

Baby Proof was annoying and contrived.

This one is too. 

So far, not one of the main characters are people I would bother hanging out with for more than two minutes in real life.

My family and friends will be quick to point out that I don't hang out with anyone in real life.  This is true.  Can I help it if I have a low threshold of tolerance for other people?  The minute they stop making me laugh, I'm done with them.  I've always been this way.  When I was little, people thought I was shy.  I wasn't.  I was just bored.

Can I further help it that most of the people who constantly amuse me happen to be my relatives?

Whatever, I would never be friends with any of the women in this book.  Self conscious, gossipy bores, every one.  And the main characters name is Tessa.

Tessa.

I'm fifty years old  and I've never known any one, in any capacity named Tessa.

I've known more Madginias than Tessas.

And this "Tessa" is the kind of idiot who tells her four year old daughter she can be anything she wants for Halloween.  Every one of us who ever had a four year old daughter knows the kid is gonna want to be whatever this years equivalent of a belly dancer is. 

And the stupid woman caves because "A promise is a promise".  Clearly, she's not fit for motherhood.

And she's a flipping bore.



Yeah, I don't think I'll be finishing this book.

 

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