Life on the Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and Daughter, a Novel.

I picked this one up off the “New” books shelf.  The title intrigued me. But then, to my horror, I read a few pages and discovered that this “novel” (see how they included “a novel” in the title??) is merely a series of notes, some only a sentence per page, between a teenage daughter and her mother.  Mom is a busy doctor and teenage daughter is , well, a teenager.  Talk about a waste of paper…… this is the most contrived and silly thing I’ve seen in quite a while. This makes me want to write a book super bad….  who did this Alice Kuipers person pay to get a favorable review in Publishers Weekly?  Or who did she screw?

The mom gets cancer, of course !!!!, and dies.  Well we knew one of them would die, right??? There. I’ve ruined it for you in case you wanted to run out and get a copy to read during that 15 minute bus commute tomorrow.  During the course of the cancer treatment they still communicate only by refrigerator notes. Puking my breakfast up now. Ugh.  This shit is about a bazillion times worse than those Nicholas Sparks sentimental goo books…   My memoir MUST be written…… and then I will find someone at Publishers’ Weekly to screw.