A relaxing read about how to give yourself an early and premature empty nest syndrome. Easy read and sometimes caught off-guard with Jem's (the leaving-home gungho all-too-assured-of-the-future daughter) sudden 'rudeness' or perhaps 'disregard' for her single mother's feelings. But I guess that's just the way teenagers and young adults are...maybe it's a little too close to home and it made me a little uncomfortable thinking about it, considering I am in the same position as Ginny (the poor abandoned mother).
I do have a complaint about the fact there's very little of everything else, especially the 'one'. What's with so little of Finn, he's not even a supporting role? It's like he donated his sperm (sorry, a little spoiler alert) and he just sounds a little too gruff and nothing else. No sweet moments and no other details about him apart from his love life.
A little less about Jem would be nice, really, considering the fact that most people reading this book would be in Ginny's shoes and not Gem. It just gives us, moms, a little bit more heartache and an incoming heart attack. #lol
It's an easy, fun read...something you'd bring on board the airplane, to the immigration department when you're waiting for your passport renewal and if you're stuck in the train or bus. But it does, kind of, reflect quite realistically about what single moms (maybe even dads) who have grown-up children approaching college or university might have to face when their kids are ready to face the world on their own.
There's a fair amount of cheating and heartbreaks in friendship and I kind of like Gavin the ex-husband. Eccentric and totally a whack. Maybe sometimes, that's the kind of ex-husbands that makes the greatest ex-husbands. No talk of alimony, child support, hard feelings, jealousy, envy or resentment. Just knowing each other well enough to let each other be.
I don't get the title, though. Thinking of who, precisely?
I do have a complaint about the fact there's very little of everything else, especially the 'one'. What's with so little of Finn, he's not even a supporting role? It's like he donated his sperm (sorry, a little spoiler alert) and he just sounds a little too gruff and nothing else. No sweet moments and no other details about him apart from his love life.
A little less about Jem would be nice, really, considering the fact that most people reading this book would be in Ginny's shoes and not Gem. It just gives us, moms, a little bit more heartache and an incoming heart attack. #lol
It's an easy, fun read...something you'd bring on board the airplane, to the immigration department when you're waiting for your passport renewal and if you're stuck in the train or bus. But it does, kind of, reflect quite realistically about what single moms (maybe even dads) who have grown-up children approaching college or university might have to face when their kids are ready to face the world on their own.
There's a fair amount of cheating and heartbreaks in friendship and I kind of like Gavin the ex-husband. Eccentric and totally a whack. Maybe sometimes, that's the kind of ex-husbands that makes the greatest ex-husbands. No talk of alimony, child support, hard feelings, jealousy, envy or resentment. Just knowing each other well enough to let each other be.
I don't get the title, though. Thinking of who, precisely?
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