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Maria Semple: Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2012, little, Brown and Company)

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow …

Review of "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" on 'Goodreads'

I just finished "Where'd You Go, Bernadette." It was just perfect for my mood at that moment. I thought Ollie-O was very funny and there was just the right amount of that level of silly satire of marketing/management-speak. I was much more taken with the story of 20 mile house and the cruise and found the affair story line distracting. It would've been more fun to get a bit more of the Microsoft culture and Elgin story.

The mystery was also the perfect morsel-size for me. I don't care for mystery as a genre, but there was just enough vanishing, investigating, piecing improbable clues, and happy discovery in the final portion of the book.