book 8

Recalculating by Jennifer Weiner
eBook - short story

first of all, i REALLY hated reading this on my phone kindle thing. my eyes were going nuts. maybe i needed to adjust the brightness or something, but i had to hold the phone a mile away and squint to see the words. it was awful. that said, i'm not sure this counts toward my fiftyfifty goal because it was a short story, but as i see myself reading greater than 50 books at my current pace, i will include it anyway. 

Recalculating is a short story that Jennifer Weiner released only on eBook format, hence my earlier complaints. i didn't know it was going to be quite as short as it was. i thought it was good, but i wasn't spectacularly impressed. i love Weiner's writing style and her characters are typically likable, but this time i felt like i was left wanting more. the writing style was great as usual, but Maureen was not exceedingly likable and the premise was more than a little unbelievable. i am a pro at suspending disbelief, but in this case i had a little bit of a hard time.

overall i just wasn't that impressed with the story. and, as a side note, when all books go electronic and i have to deal with reading on a screen i will give up reading all together and be the saddest woman in the world.