Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple FIC Sem

     

I loved Ms. Semple's previous book "Where'd You Go, Bernadette", so I was eager to read her newest book - and I was not disappointed.  Her characters are a bit quirky which makes them so much more interesting.  I tend to think that since tomorrow is a new day, it is the perfect time to clean my house, eat more veggies, pull weeds and so forth.  So from the first page I felt I had found my literary soul sister.  Yes Eleanor Flood had a long list of things she was going to do so that "today will be different".

Eleanor is supposed to be writing her graphic (in the picture sense!) memoir.  She is married to Joe who is an outstanding hand surgeon.  After ten years of living in Manhattan they are ready to start a family and Joe doesn't want to raise a child in the city.  He has a lot of job offers.  Their deal is that he will choose where they are going to live for the next 10 years.  And then they will move back to New York for ten years.  He picks Seattle.  They are almost to the ten-year mark but Joe hasn't mentioned moving.  They also are parents to 8-year-old son named Timby (you'll love the way he got his name!)

Well Eleanor's day didn't go the way she planned.  Her poetry lesson (which she loves) is interrupted by a call from the school to come pick up Timby (even though Eleanor knows he really isn't sick), she finds out that her husband hasn't been to work all week, and her son finds out about a family secret that Eleanor has been keeping from him.

A wonderful book!

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