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Someone Will Be With You Shortly: Notes From A Perfectly Imperfect Life (2010)

by Lisa Kogan(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061735027 (ISBN13: 9780061735028)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper

review 1: I'm currently reading on Daily Lit. Will I look up the book to read the whole thing? I don't know. She is vaguely like a cross between Sandra Loh and Erma Bombeck - with a completely different life. What I've read so far has varied from funny but forgettable and forgettable immediately. But there has been one essay that I found just smashing - a bit funny, but mostly yearning for a relationship that is over that captures a past that is gone forever and yet lives on. (Although I can't say I've had any relationship that approached the perfection hers did.)
review 2: I couldn't decide between 3 and 4 stars at first, and writing this a few days after reading it, I did find that not many details if the stories stayed with me. But on the other hand I do remember gig... moregling as I read on my lunch break, nodding along, and feeling genuinely touched on some occasions. Can I relate to this 49 year old disputedly single mother in New York full of insecurities... as a childless 34 year old in Nevada who is pretty comfortable with myself... not so much. But her storytelling still made me feel like she'd be someone I could sit and talk to. The first paragraph set the tone for me and made me grin... I liked how she introduced herself and how despite all her claims of being scared of everything, having strange if not totally bad luck, and sounding like someone who doesn't know any of the right answers, she still manages to wrap up many stories with a moral or at least a summary that sums the story up perfectly. A blurb on the back jacket mentions David Sedaris, and I'm not sure I'd have made that connection at all...but the one comparing her to Erma Bombeck seems right on the money...she tells her own stories with personal observations that resonate even if we don't have much else in common. In the end, I'm not likely to be able to retell you any of these stories, but I remember that I enjoyed reading it. less

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