Multiple Choice

AWESOME, FUNNY, COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN. I LOVE HER BOOKS. ALTHOUGH SHE DOESN'T HAVE MANY, SHE NEEDS TO WRITE MORE. AWESOME READ. DON'T HESITATE BUY IT, NOW!!!!

I really enjoyed this book. Yes, it's a quick read and not especially deep but it sure hit home with me as my daughter (whom I am very close with) is getting ready to go off to college. I told her I was reading this and the basic storyline - Daughter at college, Mom decides to go back to college albeit a different college and they both apply and get the same internship - and her response was, you had better not do that Mom. My daughter sometimes talks to me that way and I talk that way back to her the same way. It just rang all too true to me and I could relate to March. A keeper.

You'll have a very hard time putting down this utterly charming yet extraordinarily perceptive story of family reallignment when Olivia, daughter of March and Jeff and brother of Jackson, leaves for college just as her mother returns to school. For anyone who has left home or has had to deal with a child leaving home, this witty book is a must. Cook's great talent lies in writing a wonderfully easy read about a not-so-easy subject. This book wil fly by, but its themes -- a family in flux, mother/daughter tensions -- will be with you long after you close Multiple Choice. Read it with your mother, your father, your sister or brother.

MULTIPLE CHOICE by Claire CookWhat a cute book! MULTIPLE CHOICE by Claire Cook is the story of a mother and daughter that end up attending college at the same time (but at different schools). Narrated by "mom", March Monroe, the story is told in a light tone and is funny throughout. Her daughter Olivia is in college now, and although March tells her tale as if the two of them are close friends, Olivia's attitude toward her mother is one of embarrassment. She's at a time in her life where she's friendly with Dad, but she would rather not be in her mother's company.Olivia has no idea her mother has started college until they bump into each other at the college radio station as fellow interns. (College was husband Jeff's idea --- he discovered that it was a great way to get financial aid if there were more than one college student in the family). It's one funny scene after another. The station decides that they need a new show to fill in a time slot, due to a vacating show focusing on New Age philosophies called "Karyn's Karmic Korner" hosted by a woman named Rhonda. The show "I'm Rubber, You're Glue" is created, and March and Olivia are the stars! It's their chance to become famous and make a go at it in the world of radio, while being themselves, discussing topics and answering questions from a mother and daughter point of view.In the meantime, March has a crush on their producer, David, who she finds out reciprocates her feelings, and she dreams up fantasies that include him. It's harmless fun, although at one point March is almost tempted to make that one step past that forbidden line.Antics with the impossible "Andrea", March's last client in her "directionality" business, are full of laughs, as March tries her best to wean Andrea off of her. Andrea is starting to suffer separation anxiety, and March is almost happy to be rid of her and this business, although the money was pretty good, and the job was pretty easy. At one point Andrea uses March as a high-priced baby sitter.I loved MULTIPLE CHOICE. It's not a literary novel by any means, but it's a very simple, fun, summer read that will have you chuckling. I'm giving this one 4 stars, and highly recommend it to fans of chick lit.

I fell out of my chair laughing while reading yet another of Claire Cook's glinty-eyed dissections of family life. This is a novel filled with warmth, humor of course, and the wisdom of a writer who knows how important those small domestic moments really are. I can't imagine a better mother daughter riff, a funnier college experience, a more fraught internship. You're in for a treat!!!