I am 2/3rds of the way thru Cece Honeycut, what a turn around this book made from the first 50 pages! I said that i started it and put it down since i had just read a book about a dysfunctional family, but i picked it up again last night and LOOOVE it! That would go on my 1001 list, primarily because it reminded me of all the adult women i had relationships with as i was growing up. First of all my sisters were 15 and 8 years older than me. There were a lot of young mothers in my neighborhood thru the 50's and i would visit and chat with them as they ironed or prepared dinner. I tried to remember last night what we talked about, but i couldn't remember one single specific conversation. I assume that was because it was all normal stuff......what i'd been doing, what their kids were doing, what the neighbors were doing. They must not have minded me being there, none of them ever sent me home.
That took me thru a long revelry of thinking of how many houses there were on my block that had an apartment, or four, in them. So many people are focused today on single houses or on big apartment complexes that our kids don't have that picture of sharing a house. There are sev'l dulpexes in our current neighborhood, but it had never dawned on me about how many multiple family homes there were in my town, it was just normal.
I love the " Auntie Mame"-like character in Cece. I was laughing out loud at her antics.
I was thinking at first that it would be a good book for our book group, but late in the book there was more "religion" talked about and we have some wide divergence of religious thought in our group. From a couple atheists, an agnostic or two and one bordering on evangelism........have to think about that, there are so many things to take off on for discussion in the book.
Jean
