Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023--San Antonio
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld is centered around the life of a writer for a weekly satire comedy show on TV (like Saturday Night Live). She is a 38-year-old woman who is happy with her life and her professional success in general, but, although having been married once and had a long-time fuck buddy, she has never had a fulfilling love life. After working for 10 years at the show, there is a guest star for the week, a singer whose music she doesn't particularly like, who is both the guest host and the musical guest. In her role as a writer, she finds herself writing skits that he will be in and also helping him with a skit he has been working on and wants to submit. She is feeling something going on between the two of them, but doesn't trust that it is actually happening. He may be feeling the same way, but is not communicating it well. The question is whether they were really both interested in each other or not. It's going to take time and more awkward encounters to find out. It was fun to read, but is not great literature. Still, I gave it 4 stars out of 5.
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