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Bernadette Fox is a former architect, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, who is now a virtually agoraphobic stay-at-home mom to a precocious 8th grader, and wife to a Microsoft team leader. She cannot be bothered with the idiots who people her neighborhood, and calls the mothers of other students at her daughter’s tony school “the gnats.” Things quickly spiral out of control when she hires a virtual assistant from India to do all her err ...more
Bernadette Fox is a former architect, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, who is now a virtually agoraphobic stay-at-home mom to a precocious 8th grader, and wife to a Microsoft team leader. She cannot be bothered with the idiots who people her neighborhood, and calls the mothers of other students at her daughter’s tony school “the gnats.” Things quickly spiral out of control when she hires a virtual assistant from India to do all her err ...more
This was a fun read
DNF at 65%
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Complex and entertaining
This book was bit different than I expected. I enjoyed the story and the complexities of the characters. I felt the author captured the quirkiness of an artistic soul quite well in Bernadette. The book illustrated the different takes on the same situations by different people quite well.
The reason I didn’t find it a 5 star is I found the storyline a little too erratic at times even when you realize who the narrator is it still felt a bit disjointed. Additionally there w ...more
This book was bit different than I expected. I enjoyed the story and the complexities of the characters. I felt the author captured the quirkiness of an artistic soul quite well in Bernadette. The book illustrated the different takes on the same situations by different people quite well.
The reason I didn’t find it a 5 star is I found the storyline a little too erratic at times even when you realize who the narrator is it still felt a bit disjointed. Additionally there w ...more
I really liked the first 90% of the book, but the ending fell a little flat for me. I did stay up half the night finishing the book, though, so there's that.
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