Be My Maybe?

[thisnewday]

So I haven't been to my book club in three months.

In that time, they've read two murder mysteries (hate 'em under normal circumstances and further, as I explained to our moderator, given present circumstances, I need something "life affirming" and, for whatever reason, this genre just doesn't do it for me), followed by a novel about the DISAPPEARANCE of a murder mystery writer (nice try, I guess, but still no cee-gar), and finally, Braiding Sweetgrass, by a local tribal mother and academician (bought the book, tried reading it, just wasn't feeling it).

Then, as I was leaving the house today to pick up my grandson who was coming over to help with some landscaping--which came close to ending us both, me because I'll be 78 in two months, maybe, and him because he'd just come from school where he'd done three makeup periods of phys ed soccer--I noticed an Amazon box on my front walk.

Turns out it was Ronnie Spector's memoir, Be My Baby (1990, 2022), which I'd pre-ordered several months ago and had since forgotten about.

Guess I'm hoping that, just maybe, she's gonna rescue me from my three months book drought and subsequent pain-shopping binge on Reddit's infidelity subs.

So Ronnie, will you be my, be my maybe?

LPK
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5.3.2022

Comments

[halfmoon_mollie1]

I'm here in the desert, the book club is some very nice people who seem to prefer murder mysteries as well. We did read 'The Accidental Empress' (which I liked) but in a bid to please one of the members our last 'assignment' is...are you ready? An Amish romance. So, on the side, I am reading some fantasy. Let us know how the Ronnie Spector book is..

[thisnewday]

Yeah, I'll do that!

Maybe murder mysteries are in the Liverpool drinking water, lol, although one lady who sat down across from me, last time I was there, opened up with, "Ya know, I've always preferred non-fiction, like memoir, you know?" And I said that, yeah, I knew.

And they are, as you've said of your group, very nice people and certainly entitled to like what they like and I've spent my life being the outlier anyway and maybe couldn't handle that much of a change at this late date anyway...

[halfmoon_mollie1]

when I was much younger I read biographies ALL THE TIME. The dumbed-down ones for kids. As I got older and realized the authors of the books were all writing from personal opinion, I began to start doubting them. I will read non-fiction but it has to be something I want to read, not something I 'should' read. (I read Patti Boyd Harrison Whatever Comes Next's book. Considering how acrimoniously she and George parted, I kind of didn't believe a lot of it. I also read I Me Mine.) I kind of turned to fantasy when I was off my feet after my knee surgery and our friend Sue gave me a slew of books to read and the ones I like best were...yup.

[thisnewday]

Yeah, I agree, there's always a POV to be considered, but in some cases, like the one you mentioned, that can be the very thing that makes it interesting. Or, in other cases, makes it self-serving and obnoxious. And which of those it is depends on the reader's POV.

But, you know, blah, blah, blah. (That's me going on and on to myself in the Peanuts cartoon adult voice. Although I guess that would be wah, wah, wah, wah.)

I totally agree about it needing to be something I WANT to read, but that really applies across all genres these days.

I HAVE had the experience, in book club, of discovering new things I might not otherwise have considered, but that's less likely to happen if the group is somehow inexplicably stuck in one genre, universally popular though it may be.

Do say hello to Sue, for me, and hope you have a good day, albeit one confined to the indoors due to this crappy weather...