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The Red Book (2012)

by Deborah Copaken Kogan(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1401340822 (ISBN13: 9781401340827)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Hyperion

review 1: There's chick lit, and then there's drivel. This was the latter. Badly written, badly plotted, and preachy to boot? can't even really explain why I read it, except that it was on my Kindle and I wanted something "light". Feel sort of tawdry now. (PS. This type of book can be a frothy delight - see also the Liane Moriarity I just read, or what woman who grew up in the 80s will ever forget Lace ("which one of you bitches is my mother?") or Judith Krantz or her trashy British doppelganger Jilly Cooper? Felt like Kogan was inspired to try to recreate something like that for the contemporary zeitgeist but clunk clunk clunk, this pretty much failed).
review 2: Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Twenty years... more later, Clover is out of a job and struggling to reproduce, Addison's marriage to a writer's-blocked novelist is stale as is her career, Mia, now stays home with her children and Jane is caught in a vortex of loss. Like all Harvard grads, they've kept abreast of one another via the red book, a class report published every five years, containing alumni essays. But there's the story we tell the world, and then there's the real story, which reveals itself one reunion weekend. A great book with many twists and turns. less

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