sarahj13's reviews
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2 stars because Scorpius Malfoy made this book tolerable. So 2 stars for the precious cinnamon roll who is too precious for this world and too good for this book.

As much as I love Lorelai Gilmore, and Gilmore Girls in general, I got into this book without any expectations, as I'm not a fan of chick-lit. I honestly thought this was going to be another poorly-written, cliched novel with an inconsistent plot and no character development. I was so, so wrong.

Someday, Someday, Maybe is about a young woman named Frances "Franny" Banks in her twenties, who sets herself a deadline to achieve her acting dreams in the big and bustling New York City. The narrative of this book is fast-paced and quirky, very similar to the way Lorelai talks, so I couldn't help reading the first half of it in her voice until the main character developed a voice of her own. The characters are funny, witty and charming, and although the plot of the novel is rather typical, there is a unique voice threaded through that is entirely Lauren Graham's. Her writing style is smart and snappy and I loved it. It kept me turning the page.

Because if I'm being really honest with myself, I'm legitimately hooked on Pinetree Lodge now, in that I think about the characters during the day as though they're real people and I worry about them over the weekend. "How will Coco Breckenridge hide the facts of her murderous twin's disappearance?" I find myself thinking over the weekend.

This was exactly how I felt while reading, wondering at the end of every chapter what will Franny do next.

The novel does not paint a glamorous picture of someone's rise to fame. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen the first time one tries. It takes a lot of struggling and hoping and failure and giving-up. Franny stumbles and falls and gets back up and pushes forward and makes mistakes and learns from them. She isn't unrealistically optimistic and determined. She has her doubts.

She trails off, struggling to compare our situations, to find a way to show they're similar, but I can see the gap between us as if we were standing on either side of a massive canyon. I've been on my own timeline, but now I'm looking at the results of a regular person's life plan, and the reality is a little shocking. Regular people go to law school and graduate and get a job and get a promotion and get a better job.

It's a feeling most of those who want to take the risk of following their passions instead of clocking in at a 9 to 5 stable job have.

"Maybe you haven't accomplished what you want yet," Dan says. "But what that book shows is how you've kept filling up the pages. Quantity becomes quality by itself, like the story says. You don't even have to believe in your success. Just keep at it, like the fictional Franny, keep filling up the pages, and something's bound to happen."

I would love to read more books by Lauren Graham in the future.