Where'd You Go, Bernadette in Our Shared Shelf

Apr 06, 2014 Dana Berglund rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-for-grown-ups

Some things are all about perspective.
On the first pages, the reader is introduced to Bee, a young teenager whose mother has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The opening section of the book is a sometimes-confusing scrapbook of emails, letters, narration,bills, and reports that eventually, brilliantly, tell of the circumstances surrounding Bernadette's disappearance. I wouldn't suggest putting this book down for long periods of time, though I don't know who would want to. The pacing ...more

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Sep 07, 2025 Brian rated it liked it

(3.0) Entertaining for Seattlites, but affected construction

All enjoyable and pretty true to Seattle except for “the UW” (including in speech) and a few lesser sins. But the big problem is that all these emails and faxes are just pure narrative that no one would write as emails or faxes. Ok, she wanted to switch points of view frequently and quickly, but it was all just narrative. Plot was rollicking improbable fun, so much redemption there.

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Jan 26, 2018 Kristen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Didn't love it but didn't hate it. The characters are all equal parts annoying and intriguing; I was equally enraged by their actions and decisions and also, saying...well, yeah, I could see why they did that given the highly unlikely and whacky scenarios they were in.

I loved Bernadette's insights about mom life, Seattle, and Microsoft. They were accurate and hilarious.

I did feel that Bee came across less like 15 and more like...12. This annoyed me the most. ...more

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