Michele's review
Rise and Shine: A Novel
by Anna Quindlen
I agree with many of Michele's thoughts but I still enjoyed reading it as a look at the American media and how one errant comment can bring down a career - and how people can come back from a big fall from grace.
Michele's review
Rise and Shine: A Novel by Anna Quindlen
Michele's review
rating:
Sad Plunge into Mediocrity
I have a very strong belief that if this were a first novel by an unknown author, it would have never seen print. The story is all premise, and the promise of a novel about sisters-- one a celebrity morning talk show host the other an obscure social worker--weathering an enormous crisis, doesn't comes to fruition. This so-called crisis (at least the situation that prevails through most of the book), while titillating and tabloid, is ultimately pitiful. And finally, what I have to assume is the climactic moment of crisis for them is both predictable and garbled.
I thought the first 60 pages were good and believed the term "potboiler" might describe this novel. This is, after all, a talented and proven author / journalist at the keyboard . . . but after the set up, after Meghan Fitzmaurice, the television star of Katie Couric proportions, loses her cool on the air and flies off to Jamaica, I had to keep looking at the book cover to rem...more
I have a very strong belief that if this were a first novel by an unknown author, it would have never seen print. The story is all premise, and the promise of a novel about sisters-- one a celebrity morning talk show host the other an obscure social worker--weathering an enormous crisis, doesn't comes to fruition. This so-called crisis (at least the situation that prevails through most of the book), while titillating and tabloid, is ultimately pitiful. And finally, what I have to assume is the climactic moment of crisis for them is both predictable and garbled.
I thought the first 60 pages were good and believed the term "potboiler" might describe this novel. This is, after all, a talented and proven author / journalist at the keyboard . . . but after the set up, after Meghan Fitzmaurice, the television star of Katie Couric proportions, loses her cool on the air and flies off to Jamaica, I had to keep looking at the book cover to rem...more
I agree with many of Michele's thoughts but I still enjoyed reading it as a look at the American media and how one errant comment can bring down a career - and how people can come back from a big fall from grace.