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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2012)

by Maria Semple(Favorite Author)

2.95 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0316204277 (ISBN13: 9780316204279)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: This was exactly the book I needed after "the year of A Song of Ice and Fire." I wanted something that would be a quick, easy read, engaging, but intelligent and witty. Where'd You Go, Bernadette was all that and more. I liked it the best of any book I've read in a long, long time. I liked the writing and the format, but I also identified (to a disturbing degree, sometimes) with Bernadette. And it made me want to go to Antarctica.
review 2: Towards the end of the book there's a scene where while talking about life in Seattle, Bernadette writes 'The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us'. It's delectable one-liners like these that make this book so readable. Yes it takes too long to set things rolling, and frankly I car... moreed more about some of the supporting characters whose lives revolve around her than Bernadette herself, because essentially she remains a whiny underachiever throughout. But it's in the last leg where the writing really picks up, once our protagonists set sail for Antarctica on their search, and from thereon it's pure pleasure. I didn't mind Maria Semple's continual usage of American references much, even though sometimes they did get slightly exasperating. I just wish the first part of the book didn't read so much like one of her sitcom scripts. less

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