Rate this book

These Days Are Ours (2012)

by Michelle Haimoff(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1455500291 (ISBN13: 9781455500291)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

review 1: I liked this book about a recent college grad in the year following 9-11. A wealthy Jewish Upper East Side girl, she is fumbling along trying to deal with her parents' divorce when she was young, a crush on the perfect man, a friendship with the man who she is discovering may be perfect for her, no job, shallow life. I could definitely feel the generation chasm. But I like to try to understand the generations.
review 2: I think the best way to describe how I feel about this book is just that I liked it. Not really more than that, but not less either. It follows Hailey, a privileged early 20s New Yorker, living in 6 months-post-9/11 NY. To be honest, the first part of the book had me kind of wanting to stop reading. She seemed, to me, quite pathetic...All she d... moreid was talk and think about this guy who very clearly doesn't care a thing about her, who she never even dated. But as the book went on I started to feel like I understood. I can't say that I know what it was like in New York after 9/11, or to have divorced parents who I'm really not close to, but I know what it's like to be in that transitional period after school ends and you just feel like, "Now what?" I think Haimoff captured that very well. And haven't we all sometimes spent too much time thinking about someone who didn't do the same? I loved the style of Haimoff's writing in that all of Hailey's thoughts were written out as she was thinking them, so there may be a conversation going but we are also reading what Hailey's daydreaming about, which may be something totally different. Very realistic and overall, a good, honest look into life after college for many. less

Download links for: These Days Are Ours

Advertising