Something Blue

By Ann Hood

Book Overview

The author of Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine presents a richly-written, contemporary novel of friendship and love--a 90's version of Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others (People). When a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553071408
• ISBN13: 9780553071405
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Blue can be beautiful too

I have first discovered Ann Hood through her newest book; "The Knitting Circle" and immediately fell in love with her ease of creating a written world that beckoned me to come back to it. After having such a good experience with her work I decided to hunt down her older books to see her evolution as a writer and to read all that she has to offer. I must say that "Something Blue" was not a disappointment and I have so far purchased three more of her books and am eagerly awaiting their arrival. Ann Hood writes about women. She creates mothers, sisters, wives, friends and girlfriends who think things I have thought, who have the same questions and dilemmas and most of all, women who never give up. Through the trails and tribulations of their careers and relationships I feel the ocean wide world of wisdom passing through my mind, creating scenarios and giving me answers, making me think of what choices I would pick if I was in those situations. She is clearly an author with many things to say, crating books that beg to be read until the sky turns dark and then red and yellow as the sun comes back up, making me want to read until the book has no more words left and the back cover softly closes on her latest adventure. "Something Blue" is not a cookie cutter story about girls who want a boyfriend and eternal happiness that is delivered thorough shopping and gossiping. It is a story about three childhood friends whose paths cross around their thirtieth year of celebrating womanhood. The all end up in NYC for various reasons, making the reader feel like a New Yorker without having to actually experience it every day. I have the pleasure of living her since I was twelve but these girls have not and it was very nteresting to see their adjustments and struggles to make it in love and in the career world of the city that truly never sleeps. Lucy is a children's book illustrator waiting to be discovered in the art world, tired of having to work odd jobs such as her Whirlwind Weekend getaways that take tourists to European destination such as London, Rome, Paris or Milan one weekend at a time. Her only comfort is coming back home to the smell of Turkey roasting in the oven with Grand Mariner stuffing made by her dancer turned bartender boyfriend Jasper. She is very close to her childhood friend Julia, a woman who is an aspiring actress who can never land a role and who lives in other people's apartments when they go away for long period of times. She also loves to lie about where she's from, changing her whole life history on a whim as she picks up exotic men whom she will stop seeing after she gets all that she wants form them under the sheets. She is so good at discarding and moving that the trail of lies she leaves behind is starting to catch up to her, making her feel empty on the inside. Being best friends and close neighbors their relationship is intruded by Katherine, a bride to be who runs away from her Connecticut home the morning of her wedding a

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This was undoubtedly one of the most indulging books I've ever read. I could not stop thinking about the characters, how right or wrong they were. Hood pulls the reader into the lives of the three main characters, makes you CARE what happens to them. While there is not a lot of action there is a lot of emotion and thought put into the lives of these women and the day to day situations, relationships and faulty personality traits they exhibit. I just kept thinking about HBO's "Sex and the City" and the characters therein...this book shares the same type of personality with that show. This is a very good read.