Another snoozer. This was such a one-note book...when I read the dialogue in my head, it was all in monotone. This girl gets married young, leaves home, goes to live with her new husband who got fired from work but somehow, miraculously, they manage to survive a year without spending any money and living off the food that they found around their rented house. She gives birth alone, the baby ends up dying, the creek floods and they have to leave their house and find somewhere new to live. Oh, and he resents her and stifles her because she happens to be a lot smarter than him, in addition to being a harder worker. It's boring, pointless, and not worth reading. These last two picks of Oprah have been real doozies.
On another subject, the book club ended up not working out. I was so excited about it and I was excited about the interest that I had gotten. So I was quite disappointed when no one showed up to the second meeting. It was just me and the lovely woman who had offered to host it. What bothers me isn't that nobody showed up...people lead busy lives and I would never expect everyone to show up at every meeting. What made me sad is that no one said that they weren't coming. The minutes just ticked away and I never got a message, a call, or an email from any of the women letting me know they wouldn't be able to make it, and I just felt kind of duped. I love books and I was so looking forward to reading books that I may not have read otherwise and discussing thoughts and feelings. Oh well.
What I did read after Gap Creek was Sing You Home, by Jodi Picoult. I absolutely love her books and I read through it in less than a week. It was another amazing story, though it did include almost every big ticket controversial issue in the book, which I found kind of funny. It did make for a lot of drama and an interesting story. So I recommend that one, at least!
I hope you all are reading something worthwhile :)
