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Just heard this will be a movie w Julia Roberts in it. I thought this book was funny and it kept me reading. I wasn't taken aback w the reason Joe was awol. So the movie will have to be so good that the Joe reason will be hilarious. When a book takes place in one day the writer really has to be able to keep the reader moving on. It did but I got impatient bc I was so focused on where Joe was. The other scenes in the book made me laugh but I wanted to read them fast so I could get the missing Joe solved. But that is me and maybe I missed out bc of my focus. Then when he was found it wasn't so funny. And then I became a little annoyed w the book. But I did overall like it and the characters were sweet and well developed. The back story good and sad. And there was no resolution w her sister but maybe that's just true life and it's how we deal w it that's important. I didn't like the implications that Joe was totally upset w his wife bc she has different interests than he does. And that was just dawning on him after 20 years. But maybe this was his midlife crisis. I wish his character had been more developed. It made him out to be this perfect guy and Elenor to be so imperfect. We are all imperfect sometimes marriages work and sometimes they don't. But it's a good read. And I will want to see the movie.


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Today Will Be Different Maria Semple 9780316403436 Books Reviews

All over the place. That sums up this book. Even the twist. You wait for it forever through random tangents etc. and the twist is terrible. Plus nothing is resolved. It's frustrating.
I thought it was one if the worst books I have read in awhile. We read it for our book club and not many people liked it. I loved her Where'd you Go Bernadette that's partially why we chose this book.
Here we have Eleanor, a scatterbrained wife and mother who heedlessly careens through her day; stealing another woman's keys, smashing her head at an art exhibit and passing out, dumping her phone in a bait bucket, forgetting her dog at Costco, driving with a concussion and getting attacked by a German shepherd. Are we supposed to find such behavior endearing? Humorous? Shake our heads with a knowing chuckle ah, well, that's just how ARTISTS are!
I was so disappointed in "Today Will Be Different." It just doesn't live up to the hype, especially after the brilliance that was 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette?' Yes, it's sharp-witted and kind of interesting in an offbeat way, but it's also cartoonish. Entirely implausible. Like watching a circus on LSD.

Reframe the perspective a bit and Eleanor's behavior isn't "cute" fodder for a story but rather shameful negligence of an unfit mother.

I won't give away the ending except to say that it didn't connect. It felt very contrived. Wish I hadn't spent the money on this book. Should have borrowed it from the library instead.
Mildly entertaining, but not anywhere near as good of a book as the author's previous effort, "Where Are You, Bernadette?" The main character was more annoying than amusing, and I was quite tired of her by the end of the book.
By Chapter 3 I was ready to quit. But I kept thinking it would get better. Another Chapter or two and I started skimming. Then I slowed down again thinking maybe I was missing what makes this book so funny and wonderful and worthy of all these good reviews. I don't understand.
I never quite understood how old Timby (?? The story of how he got his name is ridiculous) is, but maybe I just missed it...
The writing style - going from first person, to third person in the ungodly extended flashbacks, back to first person, seemed awkward. But even more than that, I just found Eleanor unlikeable, and unrelatable (which is particularly odd because I suspect that I am roughly her age, with a similar once-amazing-now-stalled career, and mommy to an elementary-age child). I couldn't imagine myself taking ANY of the actions she takes. It just came across as forced and farcical. I wanted to badly to like this since the concept seemed great, but I just can't recommend this one.
Eleanor Flood begins her day with a resolve to change her life from now on she will live in the moment, wear yoga pants only to yoga class, initiate sex with her husband, spend time with her young son. But her day soon turns into a madcap ride through the streets of Seattle, Eleanor breaking luncheon dates, running unexpectedly into someone she once fired, suspecting her husband of having an affair, dealing with a son who pretends to be sick so he can get out of school, restoring luncheon dates, dropping her cell phone into a bucket of fish offal after losing her book deal, trying to make sense of the rift that has come between Eleanor and her sister Ida.
There is more. Much, much more. It’s hard to know where Eleanor will land. But land she does, and what a journey it is.
****Spoiler alerts ahead****

I forgave Maria Semple for the terrible ending of Where'd You Go Bernadette bc the wit throughout was so sharp, but this? This I can't forgive. Eleanor is like able enough but her whole "day in the life" is pretty nonsensical. There's a long bit about Spencer, a scorned employee from her past, yet no reason ever emerges as to why he wanted to track her down.

We finally get to hear the mystery of her sister, only to have the "resolution" of that storyline be that she tells her son she has a sister who doesn't like her. (To which he replies, "she doesn't not like you, she just doesn't know you." After all the hoo ha of this novel I'm supposed to also believe she birthed the most insightful 8 yr old ever? Please.)

And the big mystery about her husband that sets the pot on this course? He, apparently atheist, is actually now a bonafide Jesus freak? Are you kidding me? I kept waiting for the punchline until I realized nope. This is actually the "plot twist".

I've given Semple a fair shot and her humor is sharp but her ability to craft a cohesive storyline is anything but. I'll be sitting future novels out.
Just heard this will be a movie w Julia Roberts in it. I thought this book was funny and it kept me reading. I wasn't taken aback w the reason Joe was awol. So the movie will have to be so good that the Joe reason will be hilarious. When a book takes place in one day the writer really has to be able to keep the reader moving on. It did but I got impatient bc I was so focused on where Joe was. The other scenes in the book made me laugh but I wanted to read them fast so I could get the missing Joe solved. But that is me and maybe I missed out bc of my focus. Then when he was found it wasn't so funny. And then I became a little annoyed w the book. But I did overall like it and the characters were sweet and well developed. The back story good and sad. And there was no resolution w her sister but maybe that's just true life and it's how we deal w it that's important. I didn't like the implications that Joe was totally upset w his wife bc she has different interests than he does. And that was just dawning on him after 20 years. But maybe this was his midlife crisis. I wish his character had been more developed. It made him out to be this perfect guy and Elenor to be so imperfect. We are all imperfect sometimes marriages work and sometimes they don't. But it's a good read. And I will want to see the movie.