Gravity vs. The Girl

Gravity vs. The Girl by Riley Noehren was a pretty good book. I don't know why, but every time I read this book Gravity won...I would fall asleep or lose all of my energy! It wasn't a boring book by any means. I actually really liked it and I felt like I was really getting into it...but I fell asleep every time. I wasn't always laying down when I was reading it either. I don't know, quite the mystery.

Anyway, despite that it made my gravity increase, this book was very interesting. It's about a young woman who has a midlife crisis, essentially, when she turns 30. She's a big shot lawyer who, when the books begins, has been in her bed and in her pajamas for about a year eating mostly jell-o cups. She is then "haunted" by 4 ghosts of her past self: 6 year old, attorney, law student and high school. It's about her journey out of bed and out of her pajamas and how she deals with things to make the ghosts go away.

For me, this was a great perspective on life. Sometimes we think we've dealt with things but we find that those incidents creep up on us at some point in our lives and now that we're in a different place we can try to finally resolve them. This book was a little depressing to me because it was a little true to life for me. Not the attorney part or the ghost part, but the spending your life in bed and in pajamas part. I'm sad to admit it but the past nine months I have found myself just in a complete rut with absolutely no energy or motivation to do anything. I pull myself out of bed to take care of the necessary things for my children...but then I crawl right back in when I'm no longer needed. My house is atrocious, I only shower when it is absolutely necessary and because I'm too lazy to wash my make-up off when I actually do put it on I'm breaking out worse than I ever did in high school. So this book was kind of a wake-up call on just how pathetic I let myself become.

It has a great ending and I was really pleased with how the author wrapped things up. I hope my life has a happy ending as well. I haven't had any ghosts come to help me yet...if things get that bed I'll probably just think I'm dead!