Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From A Midlife Crisis (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Though I went through menopause in 1996, many woman in a group discussion were raving about this book, so I got it. It's the most different--and possibly the most honest--look at menopause you'll ever read. In a sometimes angry, often funny way, she chronicles the things she thinks about when lying awake in the middle of the night, the things she googles in the middle of the night and later, her problems with her severely demented mother. Its a quick, but entertaining--and mostly enlightening book that will make any woman approaching or going through (or even having gone through) menopause know that she's not alone. I picked this book up because I heard rave reviews about it on a few different blogs. I will admit there are laugh out loud moments and bittersweet moments which the author weaves together quite well, but I can't rave about it quite as much as some of the other reviewers. That isn't to say I didn't enjoy it; that isn't to say I wouldn't recommend it, but I hate to go in saying - THIS WAS THE FUNNIEST BOOK I EVER READ - because it wasn't. It was, however, worth a read. There are moments where Ferris' writing is more like a prose poem and I appreciate her easy to read writing style that is filled with honesty - no matter how painful that is sometimes.
What do You think about Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From A Midlife Crisis (2009)?
a little too close to home... i can tell you that many of my friends are exactly like this woman!!!
—ann
so very honest a woman with more than spirit and compassion, more than revealing of us all.
—giorgos
