Little Earthquakes

Author: Jennifer Weiner
Date Finished: 6/28/06

I didn't write about it, but I also read Good in Bed during this early summertime and really liked both novels. I won't weigh in on whether Weiner is writing chick lit and so should be dismissed, but I will say that these books probably won't be on any English major's required reading list in the next 20 years.

But, they are fun. And they are books as opposed to daytime television. A funny (to me) aside here: when I first discovered this here Internet, in late 1994, the first thing I sought out were mailing lists and bulletin boards discussing Days of Our Lives. I know, shameful. A couple of months ago, I had retreated to the basement while the kids were napping and flipped over to NBC to see what the residents of Salem were up to. The answer, and the universal appeal of soap operas (or "so poppers" as I first understood the phrase), is pretty much the same things they were up to fifteen years ago when I watched during my lunch hour my senior year of high school. Of course I would never abuse the Internet for such low brow purposes these days; instead I read blogs. (insert pointed silence here)

What was I talking about? Oh, right. Weiner. She's a good writer. I like her stories. Her books won't change my life, but they will give me a nice diversion and, frankly, I'm okay with that.