Review: What's the difference between men and women?  One woman's perspective
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
Blogger Rachel Thompson offers advice for turning a blog into a book.  To determine whether it would have a market, she suggests asking "Have you experienced something that few others have?  "It really doesn't matter [what it is] as long as your experience is so far afield from everyday life so that people can escape into your book for a little while."  Or "You write about fairly ordinary topics, yet have a unique spin on them."A WALK IN THE SNARK, a collection of essays originally posted on her blog is in the latter category.  Some of her observations are on the mark.  I couldn't identify with others. She provides humorous insight into relations and differences between men and women dealing with their daily lives, children, children, and work.  I think every reader will find something which will make them say, "Tell me about it.  Been there.  Done that."An important section deals with being in an abusive relationship but being blind to it, despite warnings from others, because she was in love.  Later on she refers to two broken arms I don't know whether they were hers or her daughters because she doesn't offer an explanation.She points out the differences in the way men and women perceive things.  "Women think tender is something their men should be; men think tender is something their steak should be."Among the differences are food, temperature, the television remote control ("They turn it up simply because they can."), and men interrupting and changing the subject because the woman stops to take a breath.Some of the essays present neither her nor her spouse in a positive light: She thinks it's cute when her five-year-old daughter memorizes the words to Bohemian Rhapsody and sings about how she killed a man.  (Why should the child have even heard the song let alone hear it often enough to memorize it?)  She writes about arguments and drinking vodka while trying to convince her husband take their young son for a walk in the park.  His excuse for not doing it?  He has to take the dog for a walk.  She's highly into designer labels and gets upset because her husband throws the paper towels he uses to wash his hands on the floor instead of into the wastepaper basket.  She doesn't seem to care about ecology and using (and reusing) cloth towels instead of wasteful paper.I think this book provided me with enough information about her writing that I won't be reading any more of them.This book was a free Amazon download.