Someday, Someday, Maybe
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Average rating3.6
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Ratings31
Average rating3.6
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead―and keep it together―in New York City. It’s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway and doing “important” work. But all she has to show for her efforts so far is a part in an ad for ugly Christmas sweaters, and a gig waiting tables at a comedy club. Her roommates―her best friend Jane, and Dan, an aspiring sci-fi writer―are supportive, yet Franny knows a two-person fan club doesn’t exactly count as success. Everyone tells her she needs a backup plan, and though she can almost picture moving back home and settling down with her perfectly nice ex-boyfriend, she’s not ready to give up on her goal of having a career like her idols Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Not just yet. But while she dreams of filling their shoes, in the meantime, she’d happily settle for a speaking part in almost anything—and finding a hair product combination that works. Everything is riding on the upcoming showcase for her acting class, where she’ll finally have a chance to perform for people who could actually hire her. And she can’t let herself be distracted by James Franklin, a notorious flirt and the most successful actor in her class, even though he’s suddenly started paying attention. Meanwhile, her bank account is rapidly dwindling, her father wants her to come home, and her agent doesn’t return her calls. But for some reason, she keeps believing that she just might get what she came for. Someday, Someday, Maybe is a story about hopes and dreams, being young in a city, and wanting something deeply, madly, desperately. It’s about finding love, finding yourself, and perhaps most difficult of all in New York City, finding an acting job.
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I am so impressed with Lauren Graham's debut novel! I listened to the audiobook, which she narrated which I fully recommend listening to. This one drew me in immediately and kept me devouring it throughout. I have read a lot of difficult books lately, and this was a welcome relief. It was a literary warm blanket, safe and snug and so comforting. I loved the characters. They felt real. I loved this.
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I was talking to someone about this book and realized I had to add this. I have anxiety, and as a person with genuine anxiety, this book is the perfect depiction of how an anxious mind works. I loved it. It was sympathetic, well done, and humorous in just the right way. Bravo, Lauren Graham.
Someday, Someday, Maybe is a novel of finding yourself, of finding others, and of finding love, in its various and complicated forms. The premise, I'll give you, sounds clichéd and I am certain you've heard this story before. Franny Banks is a 20-something trying to make it as an actress in New York City. She has the obligatory spunky roommate/best friend; the terminal friend-zone guy friend; the brooding, bad boy love interest; and a relationship with her father that is changing in ways neither of them can control as she asserts herself and enters adulthood. But though the story, the setting, and the characters may be something you've seen before, I guarantee you will fall in love with Franny's personality, her friends, her story, and ultimately with Graham's storytelling.
It was no surprise to me to find out that Graham holds a bachelors degree in English Literature (from Barnard College/Columbia University no less). This book is incredibly well written for being your basic story of a girl growing up in the big city, finding romantic love, a love of family, a love of friends, and, eventually, a love of self. Graham's writing is engaging and witty, and she is just as funny on the page as she seems on TV.
El Extraño Gato del Cuento
baile de victoria ¡¡¡lo terminé!!!
2.5 En realidad.
Recibí una copia de éste libro a inicios de abril, estuve muy emocionada porque es uno de los primeros libros que recibo en obsequio como Bloggera/Reviewer. Y a pesar del cariño que podría llegar a tenerle, no va a influenciar a mi crítica. La sinopsis a pesar de ser larga pinta bien ¿Cuántas veces no hemos visto las historias de la vida antes-de-ser famosos en los programas de espectáculos? Al menos yo muchas, así que un libro basado en eso era más que apetecible para mí.
A pesar de tener un buen inicio, bastante ágil y divertido, la historia va decayendo mucho.
La personalidad de Frances es muy aleatoria, pasa de defender el no ser una escuálida a sentirse cómoda con que su novio sólo se siente atraído por ella al comenzar a tener algo de fama ella también. Es cierto que el libro está ambientado en 1995 y quizá la presión por ser “perfecta” no es tanta, me gustó que Graham recalcara eso en su protagonista, aunque cómo digo, esos son sólo pinceladas de Frances.
Cómo ya mencioné la historia no es pareja, más o menos a la mitad del libro desconecté totalmente con los personajes, la mejor amiga de Frances, Jane, desaparece totalmente de la historia, cuando ella es uno de los puntos fuertes. Dan, el personaje masculino protagonista es lindo, y me gusta, pero no tiene la relevancia que éste libro necesitaba.
No me gustó como pensé que lo haría, la historia tenía un montón por explotar. Lauren Graham intentó darnos una historia centrada en Frances pero Frances cómo personaje no me fue del todo mi agrado.
Reseña completa: El Extraño Gato del Cuento
I love Lauren Graham. And I love that she stretched herself and wrote a novel, which I had heard was pretty good. And it was...fine. It seemed to be semi-autobiographical perhaps, so I enjoyed imagining Graham as Franny. But there wasn't much too the plot, and I couldn't really point to a climax of the story. The characters were OK but not super well-developed or memorable. Overall, I would consider this a good vacation read.
