I’ve enjoyed the majority of the Reese Witherspoon book club recommendations I’ve read, so I ended up picking up The Cactus with little plot knowledge.  I also saw the comparisons to Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.  I think those comparisons actually hurt this novel – for the first third, it felt like a weak copy of Eleanor, as if a publisher had decided to release this novel because it also had prickly and distant narrator.  The thing is, though, that Susan is much colder and […]