Play Book Tag discussion

This was fun, mindless, quirky, easy to follow, and altogether fine while it lasted. But was kind of nothing. I had pretty high expectations after loving Where'd You Go, Bernadette- and honestly one main reason I enjoyed it as much as I did was because of the Seattle setting. Love the references, the Seahawks, the Mariners, and I felt like I could follow along exactly with the locations. The book itself had fun characters, but lacked a backbone of story.

We follow the quirky Eleanor- who is a high-strung, almost manic mom through ONE day. The titled "day that will be different". Yes- all 300-some pages of this are around ONE DAY. We see flashbacks of how her and her husband met, her life before her son, her previous work experiences, relations with her family- and it's revealed her sister who she doesn't talk to anymore. These are all revealing and great- but ultimately shallow. Plus the 50-page flashback of Ivy and Bucky's story was WAYYY too long. This was supposed to be the clincher of the story, but really was just too drawn out and somewhat irrelevant.

The characters are fun. I kind of thought Eleanor was going to fly off the handle the entire book. The son, Timby is a winner. He brings the funny kid view on life and keeps the book in perspective. The writing was funny, even though now I can't remember any jokes. Ultimately this was fine for fluff, but won't stay in my mind long.