Exceedingly Mundane

I finished another library book last night, “Goodnight Nobody” by Jennifer Weiner. I had not read any books by this author, and I must say, I really enjoyed it. It was a very good read, and a nice little plot. The basic premise of the book is a suburban housewife and stay-at-home mom with 3 kids under the age of five, finds herself living in a Stepford-like Connecticut suburb. She used to have a fun life, friends, parties, a cool job, and now she feels like her life is nothing. She walks in one morning and finds one of the perfect moms with a knife in her back, dead on her kitchen floor. She decided to do some investigative journalism and find out who killed her, about her life, etc. She used to be a reporter, after all (well, she was a tabloid, gossip type reporter!) The book goes from there, and the plot weaves in and out of her friends, family, children, fellow Stepfordites and the people she meets who knew the deceased. I really enjoyed it, and will be looking for more books by Jennifer Weiner to check out. She wrote the book “In Her Shoes”, which was made into a movie last year with Cameron Diaz (and yes, this movie is still on my rental list, haven’t gotten to it yet).

For the record, that makes #35 for the year, with a total of 12,547 pages read. Up next is one of the “Capital Crimes” series novels, “Murder at Union Station” by Margaret Truman. I only have a couple of days before this one is due back at the library, so I don’t know if I’ll finish it in time, or simply have to go back and renew it. So many books, so little time!