Crimes Against a Book Club
Kathy Cooperman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“How did the nursery rhyme go? “Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard and found she was fresh out of blow.” Something like that. Annie”
“Joan Collins once said that being beautiful was like being born rich and getting poorer every day.”
“When Sarah finally got pregnant, she was determined to be ruthlessly positive about it. She would not jinx her twins by complaining about minor inconveniences. No, she would remain sunny. She read all the feel-good books she could find on pregnancy and child-rearing, blocking out dark thoughts by force of will. But as the days wore on and her nausea went from bad to worse, one book kept bobbing up in Sarah’s consciousness: Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin’s tale about Satan’s mother. Rosemary had had morning sickness too, right? 47”
“Time is unkind to all of us, but it is particularly sadistic to women. A man’s physical prowess may dwindle with time, but he has compensations: stature, wealth, eminence. Men grow distinguished while women simply grow old.”
“The Six was everything that a book club book should be: short at two hundred pages, highbrow because it dealt with English history, and sexy because it focused on a man who had humped his way through half the English court. It was also critically acclaimed by the right people, meaning that the New York Times loved it but the masses did not.”
“Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca was the book club pick that got under Kim’s skin. She took no pleasure in watching the timid heroine contort herself in a desperate attempt to live up to the memory of her aloof husband’s dauntingly beautiful, now-dead first wife. Kim had thrown the book across the room when—hundreds of pages in—the husband revealed that he’d hated his first wife and loved the newbie exactly as she was. Why the fuck hadn’t he said so back in chapter one? 22”
“Annabelle, please don’t take this the wrong way, but there’s something very moral about you. You’re like an Amish woman with an invisible prayer bonnet on your head. People don’t need to see the bonnet on you. They can sense it.”
“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and fed her children, but she had no interest in playing with or listening to them.”
“they’ll sue. That’s what rich people do when you annoy them. They sue you.”
“When Annie didn’t rush in with praise, Chloe huffed, “Oh, I know I wasn’t a perfect mother. But we can’t all be perfect, Annie. I can’t be like you. And truth be told, I wouldn’t want to be. My dear girl, the truth is that you’ll never be a first-class human being or even a first-class woman until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.” Annie was unimpressed. “You stole that from The Philadelphia Story.” “So what if I did? It’s still true.” Annie”
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Book Keywords:
time, aging, growing-old, old-age
