Review: No More Weiner for Me
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2013
I bought this novel since it was a short story and only 99 cents. I think this is a new thing that Jennifer Weiner is trying. She is trying to switch over from women's literature/chicklit to thriller or mystery and it 100 percent is not working for me at all. I love thrillers and mysteries and when the writer knows what they are doing, it can keep you on the edge of your seat.  Between this short story and the other one I read, "Recalculation" I think I am done purchasing short stories by her period.In "A Memoir of Grief [Continued]" Eleanore Good is dealing with the death of her husband, Gerald King who was a literary giant in New York. We find out through Eleanore's remembrances of Gerald, that perhaps the only person that saw Gerald as a king was truly her since what the reader finds out about him is not good at all. Eleanore, is definitely not someone I was rooting for at the end of the story, instead I wished all of her machinations would be brought to light since she justifies everything she does and is doing for her husband.I really loved Weiner's previous novels from her heyday but these short stories and some of the most recent published ones are not my cup of tea at all. The main problem with this novel is that she has to be able to tell us so much more in a short amount of team. She has to be able to grab the reader fully and keep them wholly invested in just a few short pages. In my opinion, she just was not able to do that and I think she would have been better served working on this for a while before publishing it.I definitely do not recommend it.