Hungry Heart – Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
by Jennifer Weiner is heartwarming and endearing. It’s like hanging out
with a good friend who “gets” you. She’s now a bestselling author (Good
in Bed, In Her Shoes, et al), but she’s also a mom, daughter, sister,
wife, and is a mix of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. (That’s a good thing!)
From the cover – hilarious and moving, Hungry Heart is about yearning
and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the
world and found it as a storyteller.
She always felt like an outsider, even in her own family.
She was a “big” girl – healthy and athletic (competed in rowing), but loved to
eat, loved to read, and just followed a different path. She was smart and
knew it and didn’t let it hold her back. She found her voice in a newsroom,
then as a novelist, and now as an activist and New York Times columnist.
She worked hard at her craft. In a class with John McPhee she learned about
revising and revising again. P. 110 Every piece of prose had to be
whittled and buffed, fine-tuned and reworked and rubbed down and polished
again, until it was as close to perfect as you could get it.
I enjoyed this book – whether it was her describing living
in Philly and dealing with her kids. Or it was divorcing and rebounding. I
liked the chapter about her grandmother in the retirement home and the “mean
girls” there. Nothing in life really changes. You have to learn to be part of a
group whether you are a kid or a senior. Jennifer Weiner has learned to adapt
and embrace her differences to be part of a group. She’s found her writing
niche and keeps honing her craft. She embraces social media and tries her best
to help for positive change.
P. 402 Keep swimming. Keep talking. If something’s
wrong, speak up. I will always love you, and I will always see you, all of you,
inside and out. And every single part of you is perfect.
Wise words from Jennifer Weiner.
Appears to be a wonderful book to read by a talented author.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
Her humor and heart shines through
DeleteI have read some of her work. This sounds good.
ReplyDeleteBetty
I am a fan and you will like her even more
DeleteIs this an autobiography or fiction?
ReplyDeleteAuto bio. If you've read her fiction you will appreciate it even more
DeleteThose groups sure seem to stay no matter the age.
ReplyDeleteClicks abound and too many labels. Shame
DeleteSounds like a great book. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed it immensely and it's a fast read.
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