If I was the kind of woman to have "book husbands," this man and Jim, the roofer from I was tempted to read this book by the glowing reviews and it proved to me that the reviewers are not ALWAYS wrong. Set in Texas in 1867, during the Comanche Wars, the project follows two powerful ex-cavalry men, a war-hungry Colonel, and his seemingly by-the-book executive officer. I would have loved to point him to the nearest green-with-envy evil stepmother/stepsister. It gripped me by degrees, opening rather conventionally and then gradually seducing me with a fertile character development and realistic, original story. With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”— Published There's a point in which one of the characters - a highly successful animator Ethan - wonders which Disney character would the protagonist Jules be and concludes that Disney doesn't make princesses like her. The pacing is slow, but I find the characters interesting enough that I want to know what happeI'm about 180 pages into it and am really enjoying it. A drama centered around the first four women ever to graduate from Boston's Police Academy in 1978. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation.
Start by marking “The Interestings” as Want to Read: I was tempted to read this book by the glowing reviews and it proved to me that the reviewers are not ALWAYS wrong. On a sweltering hot day, a very pregnant Maria, desperate for a cooling swim, encounters obstacles on her path to the river. I could give each of these characters names from my own camp experience.
If you are drawn to human drama, you’ll soon be thoroughly hooked. The Interestings is warm, all-American, and acutely perceptive about the feelings and motivations of its characters, male and female, young and old, gay and straight; but it’s also stealthily, unassumingly, and undeniably a novel of ideas. It would be condescending and untrue to say of Meg Wolitzer that her work just keeps getting better, because it's always good. It gripped me by degrees, opening rather conventionally and then gradually seducing me with a fertile character development and realistic, original story. But whatever causes us to look back to what was, to feel what we felt, to hear what we heard, to be what we were, is something that we long for, consciously or unconsciously. The Interestings. Welcome back. Wolitzer has a good, often biting sense of humor, which is also adding to my enjoyment. . The Interestings. It can be a blissful moment, a painful time, a hopeful dream. She penetrates the messiness of human lives with a spotless narrative that feels both familiar and singular. They're dime a dozen in Disney. I felt like I was reading this book forever but I did enjoy most of it. Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. . Peter, an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating a murder of a young female archaeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making. I was sucked in by the opening chapters, a group of friends, a summer camp much like my own, only half a generation older than me. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.”“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.” .
Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. 4 of 4 people found this review helpful. Ethan, Jules, Cathy, Goodman, Ash: All believe they are meant for great things. Things that claim and reclaim our thoughts more than we want them to, recollections that our etched into us no matter what we do. This one especially moved me, maybe because I saw myself in all its characters. A group of teenagers meet at an arts camp and become life-long friends. Wolitzer wrote in such an ironic, lofty fashion that I was completely distanced from the characters.
I’m not certain what 44 looks like, other than what I’m presented with in the mirror each morning. Like The Corrections, The Interestings addresses one of fiction’s great themes: how we make peace with our own shortcomings and make the best of ordinary lives.The Interestings are about as interesting as my butt dimple.