4 Books Like Cygnet

This book was meant for OLDER women. It is cynical, insightful and hilarious. I loved this book because of these issues. It’s not a book for younger women, who still have hope and the faith that men will be decent, and not dump them when boredom sets in. It was written exclusively for women who have given up - given up on men and given up on the future. Women, ‘of an age’ who have seen it all and perhaps done it all. 

This book was the inspiration for the film, Someone Like You, starring Ashley Judd. It presents a fascinating theory, called the New Cow Theory that explains how men are hard wired in much the same way BULLS are hardwired. They tend to want to mate, (copulate) and then split town in search of a newer, fresher COW. The book shows how appearing desperate to please a… show more.

This book was one that I had gotten several years ago, but because it is long, over 400 pages, I never put in the dedication to read it. I read a couple chapters but didn't follow through. Well, a few weeks ago, I picked it up again, and started from the beginning and started reading it. I got progressively more involved in the great writing and basically, the mystery of the story, and could not put it down. It is FABULOUS. Such a fun, fast paced and interesting book. I love the fact that Anna Fox is a drunk. She's ill and on various meds. She's a total unreliable character and kind of a basket case. That was the one part I didn't expect. That I would grow to care about such a nut case. The author is a man and that's the other interesting thing. His pen name is… show more.

As most people ‘of an age’ already know, Neighbors, the 1981 film is based on the 1980 book, by longtime writer and author, Thomas Berger. Berger is also the author of the bestselling novel, Little Big Man which later became a film starring Dustin Hoffman. 

And both the film version of Neighbors, and the book are hilarious. 

I had seen the film years ago, back in 1981, when I was fifteen, and several times after that, but I didn’t know until recently that the film was based on a prior book. So, after recently watching the film again, free on Youtube, I was intrigued and decided to order and read the book. I’m glad I did. It was a hoot. It is an odd book, because I can only describe it as rather Pedantic. It is dated in the language but it works, because I think Berger’s language is interesting… show more.

My Mother's House was one of the best books I've ever read. It was sensational. Ruby Franke was the social influencer, who created a million plus subscriber YouTube page, called Eight Passengers, which detailed the life of her six children and she and her husband. She was known as a very strict and punitive mother. It all turned bad when she met a closet lesbian, who seduced her into an affair and then compelled her to move in with her. From there, it went from bad to worse, when Jodi Hildebrand and Ruby began abusing her two youngest children by starving them. This book is an important book, which details the oldest child, Shari's struggle to protect her five younger siblings from the dysfunction and abuse of their deranged mother, who, along with Jodi is serving hard time in prison for child abuse. It is a riveting account and a… show more.