Ponder Post: Summer Rental

I was a little delayed in reading this book. Summer Rental is a beach themed novel that appealed as an impulse bought, lazy read during the summer months, but I did not get to it until this fall.

I was captive on an airplane and so that is why I completed it now. It was a rather vapid read about four women who rent a house at the beach for a month and discuss their wide and varied relationships with the men in – or the men absent from – their lives. The author, Mary Kay Andrews, is a New York Times bestselling author but apparently her genre does not appeal to me. The only rapid action occurs in the final thirty or so pages of the book. Whether love or practicality should prevail is an over-riding, and over-nauseating question that abounds. If you are hoping for an answer in this book do not hold your breath. I finished the book. I was on an airplane. There was no escaping.

Though, come to think of it, on the second leg of our return flight from Oklahoma, Frank and I were seated in the exit row...