Today Will Be Different

 Maria Semple is the author of Today Will Be Different. A female narrator starts out by saying today will be different. She is not going to talk about money. She will initiate sex with her husband. She will eat right. Today she will not harbor negative thoughts. She sounds like she has a good plan but as the day goes by she breaks all of her plans many times over before noon. Her son, Timby, has been having belly aches. She has had to pick him up from school 3 times in the last two weeks. The school calls again that Timby is ill. She knows he is faking this illness. She calls her husband, a respected hand surgeon to the stars and the athletes and the Russian oligarchs, so he can pick up Timby but he is not in his office. She has a lunch appointment with a friend at noon. She calls the friend to cancel the lunch. Once at school she knows she has to act kindly to her boy. Timby asks her questions that drive her up the wall. May I play with your phone? How about we go out to eat? For Christmas she gave him a bag of make-up. She doesn't want Timby to wear make-up to school but he does it anyway. He asks why she gave him the make-up if she didn't want him to wear it. This book had me laughing out loud so many times it's ridiculous. Read it, you will love it. I hope you do.