Today Will Be Different
A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.
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I listened to the audiobook. I really enjoyed the narrator and found the book very entertaining. I wonder if I would have enjoyed the book as much had I read it. I think I would rate this a solid 3 1/2 stars.
I'm considering taking this down to a 1-star. The book has possibilities. Or rather, it had them until she wrote the darn thing. Eleanor's not a believable character. Not as a mother, wife, or sister. Not even as a dog owner. I kept having hope that the book would get better. It had highlights. She's got that one terrific paragraph, about being her best self, but that's the rare bit of excellent writing. Either get this book from the library, or, better yet, just read the quotes page on Goodreads, which will be so much better than the whole experience. It almost had three stars, but the fact that the plot line dies an agonizing death, ever so slowly and melodramatically, like a bad actress in a 4th grade play, means that my disappointment level in the book was so great that I had to subtract stars.
I'm giving myself the permission to stop reading a book of I'm just not into it. I'm exercising that right with this book. It's not my cup of tea. Next book...
This character is a scatterbrained nut job and I really feel sorry for her husband Joe, and her son Timby. She’s literally ALL over the place! I wish it would have wrapped everything up better in the end, but I still enjoyed the wild goose chase.
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