Review: Love the writing, but the story wasn't cohesive to me
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
Acckkk.  (I gave this three star on Goodreads because of the difference in star meanings.)So conflicted about this book.  I love this author.  This is the third book of hers I have read.I love her humor.  I love her strong female relationships.  I love her humanity (overstating, I know).  I just love her.But this book, meh.  I like all of the individual units listed above, but I didn't really see a story here.  It seemed more like a recounting of individual events and everything was tied up in the end.It was a sweet recounting, it was a well-done recounting; but a story, I am not so sure.  I know that probably doesn't make sense to anyone but me.The situations were over the top.  There just seemed to be one ridiculous situation after another, and they were all drawn as if they made perfect sense.Did I love the book?  No.Did I laugh a lot?  For sure.Did I enjoy seeing the Marilyns (and the Marilyn Mama)?  Definitely.Did I feel like I read a cohesive tale that had conflict and resolution?  Not so much.But I will read whatever this woman writes because I love her so, even if I don't get a sense of "story."  The vignettes were just fine.A few editing/spelling/word choice issues, but they didn't take you out of the book.