book 16

Declaring Spinsterhood by Jamie Lynn Braziel
227 pages


Declaring Spinsterhood is the story of Emma Bailey, a luckless thirty-year-old woman tired of dating.  Since she has decided men are too difficult, she announces to her family that she is declaring spinsterhood.  Her best friend is her neighbor, Brian.  They are obviously going to end up together.  You wonder the whole time why Emma was so dense.

This book would appeal to a woman who is religious.  Emma is waiting until marriage to have sex, attends church every Sunday, doesn't drink and doesn't swear.  "Hell" is referred to as a curse word.  She says "drat" and "dang" and "heck".  There was no sex.  There was no passion.  It was boring as heck. (Ha).  Declaring Spinsterhood reads like a memoir, and is not anything special AT ALL.

It would really probably appear to mostly members of Young Republicans.  Female members.  I am not surprised that the book was self-published because I can't imagine any major publishing house (outside of, apparently, Amazon Encore) publishing it.

Declaring Spinsterhood wasn't horrible, it just really wasn't for me.