Liane Moriarty strikes again. All of her books are 🔥and this one did not disappoint. 10 out of 24 in the books. Har, har. Hate me I don't care.
Truly Madly Guilty followed a similar rhythm to her other stories. A group of adult friends (or are they) are involved in some major catastrophe that may or may not affect all their futures once the twist is revealed. Typically we don't figure out who is the good girl, who is the bitch, and who is just there to try and throw you off the scent until the end. But I mean really, who actually enjoys figuring it out before the author tells you?
When reading her books, I more often than not find myself relating to multiple character types that Moriarty creates. Usually there is a working/career mom who feels like she is spending too much time on herself or her own needs when she should really be allocating them elsewhere. This time around it was Clementine and a particular passage hit me.
"She murmured sympathetic words of comfort and rocked Holly back and forth while she stared longingly at her cello, sitting quiet and dignified up against her pretend audition chair. No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing."
While I'm not a professionally trained cellist and while I haven't even begun a career I feel that when I take the steps to try and make something happen there are so many obstacles and feelings from all angles; internally and externally. On the same hand though, I do not feel like a wasted shell of my previous self either. Do I wish that I had this stuff figured out before I became a mom? Sure. But should I be exempt from trying to accomplish my own dreams because I have to help make my offsprings dreams come true? I don't think so.
Regardless this book is a good one to pick up this Summer and I recommend it along with her other works as well. Specifically Big Little Lies (don't watch the mini series on HBO first if you plan on reading it) and The Husband's Secret.
"Like drinking a pink cosmo laced with arsenic." - USA Today.
Leia
When reading her books, I more often than not find myself relating to multiple character types that Moriarty creates. Usually there is a working/career mom who feels like she is spending too much time on herself or her own needs when she should really be allocating them elsewhere. This time around it was Clementine and a particular passage hit me.
"She murmured sympathetic words of comfort and rocked Holly back and forth while she stared longingly at her cello, sitting quiet and dignified up against her pretend audition chair. No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing."
While I'm not a professionally trained cellist and while I haven't even begun a career I feel that when I take the steps to try and make something happen there are so many obstacles and feelings from all angles; internally and externally. On the same hand though, I do not feel like a wasted shell of my previous self either. Do I wish that I had this stuff figured out before I became a mom? Sure. But should I be exempt from trying to accomplish my own dreams because I have to help make my offsprings dreams come true? I don't think so.
Regardless this book is a good one to pick up this Summer and I recommend it along with her other works as well. Specifically Big Little Lies (don't watch the mini series on HBO first if you plan on reading it) and The Husband's Secret.
"Like drinking a pink cosmo laced with arsenic." - USA Today.
Leia
