Now or Never; Beautiful Little Fools

 

The latest Janet Evanovich book about Stephanie Plum was pretty good, even if she did marry the wrong guy in the end. 

At the end of the last book, Stephanie finds herself in quite the quandary: both Joe and Ranger have proposed, and she said yes to both. Now she has to figure out what to do. How to choose? Oh, and she might be pregnant, too. What a mess!

There was the usual round of trying to do her actual job, with a lot of disasters sprinkled in. According to the last page of the book, it's not the end of Stephanie's story, so we'll see how married life treats her. 

A few weeks ago, one of my colleagues came by and asked me if there were any writers I thought were overrated. Without hesitating, I responded: "F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway". Part of my lack of enthusiasm stems from the fact that they are often lumped in with William Faulkner, based on the time they wrote. I had to read "The Great Gatsby" three times as an undergrad, and I hated it more each time I read it. Seriously, just despised it. 

This one seemed interesting, though. I wondered what a different writer would do with Fitzgerald's characters, and how the story would look told from their point of view. I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would.