Book #72: Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham

When I listened to Lauren Graham's memoir, she talked about the process of writing her novel, which I'd heard about but never really considered reading. But I loved her personality so much in her memoir that I decided this would be a fun and quick book to download for our trip, and it was.

Graham talks about how people accused her of just ripping from her life story as she wrote this book, but she said it was more the opposite--she tried really hard to write her characters NOT like people she knew, so that it wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings, etc. But this story obviously comes from her life experiences--not that it's just what she did, but that someone like her has done this, for sure. It's about a girl, Franny Banks, who goes to New York after college to try and make it as an actress, and she gives herself a deadline of three years to "make it." And if she doesn't make it by then, she's giving up and moving out and getting married to her college boyfriend. She works as a waitress and has been in one commercial and gotten into a prestigious acting class, but she only has six months left on her timeline and not much else is happening. The book tells the story of what she does in those six months and how she makes decisions and tries to make progress on her goals. I liked this book, liked the mistakes that Franny made and how she got back up from falling down. It was a cute, quick read, just like I thought, but I don't think it's one I'm going to be remembering in a year or coming back to again and again.