Review: Holy doodles! What a fun book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
What can I say? I LOVED this book. In a crowded literary field of perfect Barbies in perfect happily-ever-after romances, Weezie stands out like a real flesh-and-blood woman. So she's a little fleshier than she used to be... who isn't? And her hair may have a mind of its own, but who has time to mess with hair when there's all those other things to do, like a husband to humor, sons to raise, a house to clean, cooking to do, and columns to write? But she's a good woman, a good wife, a good mother, and her marriage is just fine.Until it isn't.As they say, the wife is the last to know. Weezie only finds out about her husband's "extracurricular activities" because her young sons accidentally spill the beans after they catch him in the driveway fogging up the car windows with a blonde bimbo.Then, everything changes.With a delightful sense of humor and a delicious sense of the absurd, Oliffe-Webster spins a well-written tale about a woman who loses the security of her old life, but with courage, determination, and the help of her friends, finds brand new purpose and meaning in her new one. Her predicaments and struggles are guaranteed to make you chuckle a time or two, and to tug at your heartstrings, as well. You might even feel like cheering when she decides it's okay if she says something a little more off-color than "Holy doodles!" Know why? Because Weezie is a character I think you'll all love.