Years ago, I was a wild and crazy single girl in the big city. I had finished Graduate School, married and divorced, and found myself in a life I wasn't sure was my own. I had a good job, by most standards. Yet I felt unfulfilled. I can't say I hated that job....but it was severely boring and seemed like a HUGE waste of time. But I was using my fancy schmancy degree and making the big bucks, so I figured I was doing okay.
After my first marriage ended I went a little crazy (doesn't every newly single woman?). I had more dates in that time of my life than ever before. I'd meet one guy for lunch and another for dinner. I was rockin the single life! I was dining out, hitting the dance clubs, getting regular pedicures. It was a LOT of fun! But again, I felt unfulfilled. I couldn't help wondering if a relationship would develop with each different guy I went out with. I drove myself crazy looking for signs and clues.....boring my friends to tears with superbly detailed accounts of my dates and conversations, trying to dissect something out of nothing.
I so desperately wanted to know where my life was headed. I NEEDED to know what I was supposed to do with myself. I spent so much time and effort analyzing things, that sometimes I forgot to simply *be*. The main character in the book Houston We Have A Problema certainly understands that feeling. Jessica is a 26-year-old wild and crazy single girl in the big city herself. She's obsessed with figuring out her career and love life, to the point of missing out on what's right in front of her. She even goes so far as to make VERY regular visits to her neighborhood psychic, trying to grab hold of anything that can tell her which direction to steer herself.
The Hachette Book Group generously provided the book Houston, We Have A Problema, written by Gwendolyn Zepeda, for this review. You can read the back cover of the book here.
I won't tell you what Jessica finally ends up doing with herself. As for me? I settled down, met my current husband, gave birth to my son, moved to the swamp, and now lead a very non-wild and not-so-crazy married life in the country. My, how times do change!
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Hmmm, sounds like a good read and that you've had an interesting life! I still dream about finishing college and having a career, I guess because I didn't get to do all that finding myself that everyone else got to do during and after college.
I'll have to look at this one, I love a good girly read every now and then!
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