A brilliant novel from the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.
Eleanor knows she’s a mess. But today she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won’t swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe.
But before she can put her modest plan into action – life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother’s company. It’s also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office – but not Eleanor – that he’s on vacation. Just when it seems like things can’t go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret.
Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.
Disappointed. After “Where Did You Go Bernadette” I expected more likable people and more fun. Not in this book. In spite of attempts to be sophisticated and clever it is merely obtuse, confusing, ultimately boring. One person is more disgusting, revolting than the next. Including the female protagonist. When it was all over, all I could think was, who cares?!
Fast and fun read I loved reading her Bernadette book so I pre-ordered this one. At first it seemed to be Bernadette 2.0 but then it really took off and sucked me in.Â
Everything Seems So Easy in the Morning … but Reality Awaits Us in the School of Life I eagerly waited for the release of TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT and the wait was sooooo worth it. Maria Semple captured an enlightening day in the life of renowned illustrator Eleanor Flood as she pleads each morning to be a better version of herself as a work-from-home writer, illustrator, friend, poetry fanatic (which she hopes will save her from Alzheimer’s), wife and mother (to equally memorable son Timby*) . Through a series of hilarious, and sometimes bittersweet events, and some…