Way back in the olden days (the 1990s, gasp!) there was a little book called The Object of My Affection about a kind of fat and lonely girl who falls in love with her gay best friend while she’s pregnant and they decide to raise the baby together, and then life gets in the way, etc. Everybody read it, I think it was mandatory book club fodder at the time, even though I’m not sure anyone really loved it, or really even liked it. They […]
All couples start off as Romeo and Juliet and end up as Laurel and Hardy.
This book was selected by my book club. I’m not sure that it would have been one that I picked up on my own, but I enjoyed it. It’s an interesting exploration of how we connect and disconnect with the world around us and how relationships evolve over the years. After their short marriage ended 30 years ago, David and Julie reconnect. Now both in their mid 50’s and experiencing a break up and a divorce respectively, they come together at Julie’s hodge podge old […]