gilbert’s books for me fall into the category where i hear so many people rave about it and i read them ... and i don’t get it?

i mean it’s not bad but where is the great? the rave worthy? the hyped up goodness?

and it’s not that i hate her books -well not her fiction ones i read so far and always tell myself it’s the last one of hers i try since i just never love her works so why not spend my time reading something i might actually love instead?- but for me there is just nothing special about it.

sure this book was good.
i loved how a woman shares her sex positive view during a time that certainly wasn’t sex positive when it came to women (is it a sex positive time even now? can women freely share they like and want sex without being judged? i am not sure)
i also enjoyed getting a bit of a different spin to the “not typical daughter” trope.

but the overall story/book, how it was written and the length of the book just felt a bit dragged out, a bit too long, too much, too boring for me.
after the first 100 pages it started to feel repetitive to me.
sure things where happening and not always the same things over and over but it didn’t drag me into the life story of this woman and sucked me in so that i couldn’t put it down!
actually this book too me months (!) to read where normally a book like this might take me a week if i am not completely absorbed into it.

so yet again i ask myself after finishing a gilbert book.
is it me?
do i not “get” her books?

or is it just hype over the author and her books are good but not as great as everyone pretends they are?
is that mean to say? or just realistic? since not every book can be a fantastically world chancing wonder!

to me this was okay.
had it’s good moments and it’s questionable moments.
overall i am once again left with the thought that i shouldn’t read another one by this author since it just leaves me feeling disappointed instead of happy or at least satisfied after finishing it.