Molly's review
The Year of Yes by Maria Dahvana Headley (Goodreads author!)
I enjoyed the style of this book: twitchy at times, often witty, Headley has a nice voice for storytelling. Quick paced, just like the city in which she lived in, the book tells the story of a girl bumping around, meeting and unmeeting people, each making some kind of impression on her outlook. The point isn't that she dated a string of strange people, that she met her husband in the end, although this did tie in with her preferred happily-ever-after scenario, but instead, that she opened up her life to new possibilities.
I especially enjoyed the literary references, but that will always get me.
There were a few issues in the storyline that may have prevented me from anything more than mere escape reading: the topic wasn't certainly profound (not that she set out to write The Next Great American Novel / Memoir), or new entirely (after all, how many times had Carrie or one of her cohorts decided to "try something new"?), and character was underdeveloped. She seeme...more
I especially enjoyed the literary references, but that will always get me.
There were a few issues in the storyline that may have prevented me from anything more than mere escape reading: the topic wasn't certainly profound (not that she set out to write The Next Great American Novel / Memoir), or new entirely (after all, how many times had Carrie or one of her cohorts decided to "try something new"?), and character was underdeveloped. She seeme...more
