Romantic Comedy
It’s a riff on the long-running TV serial, Saturday Night Live, and one I didn’t watch much lately, until, well, streaming and post-pandemic media.
Always tenuous at best to have a “writer” as the center, but then, a comedy TV writer isn’t the same as, say, a novelist. (Or long-standing horoscopes.)
“He said that I should never be the one to preemptively reject my ideas; I should force other people to.” Page 53.
That one was funny advice from one character to another, but also pointed, and I think, I’ll use that, too.
A running gag, built for the book, as a central theme, about a person who dates someone clearly out of his or her league. Not without brilliance, but then, my old adage? “A man’s grasp must exceed his reach, or ….”
Reminds me of the plethora of novels I’ve read in the last years, strong female protagonist, self-deprecating humors, the typical arc? “Man meets woman, falls in love, problem, obstacles, happy reunion,” but the obstacles and the protagonist’s neurosis. Our heroine, is sparkling with wit.
Of note, this was a Reese Witherspoon book club favorite. Shrug?
The author’s tone was remarkable in that it caught that inner-voice with almost crippling angst and mordantly funny, at the same time.
From close reading, the main protagonist was Scorpio and the romantic interest counterpart? Virgo rock star.
Romantic Comedy
NB., This Bird Has Flown