great podcast -- really enjoyed listening! off to check out uvula!
MaryjoO | 10.07.08 - 8:30 am | #

Thanks Maryjo!
Julie D. | Homepage | 10.07.08 - 11:08 am | #

I do think that's part of it (both that that's what she was used to and that in some ways she missed her own pre-divorce life), but at the same time the fact that she had to support herself off her own work (and that her mother's life would have been financially easier and perhaps less worrying if she'd had the option of working after her father's death) makes it more perplexing that she said things were better when women didn't work--especially since she also thought her mother would have been a good doctor or lawyer (whichever she helped her brother study to be--I've forgotten). It's possible she was bemoaning what her own mystery writing had become (in that she was more excited about her other writing, but it was less profitable), as compared to her earlier life when she wrote for fun.

I really did enjoy the book--even though I keep harping on the couple of things that I didn't like about it. They stand out because they seem out of character--in the rest of the book she doesn't express many judgments. I wonder whether there was more commentary (about all topics) initially, and it was removed in the editing process, whether those are the only places she wrote that way, or whether there wasn't any originally but she was encouraged to add it.
Rebecca | Homepage | 10.24.08 - 1:17 pm | #

I tend to think it was just what she said in the very beginning ... that she wrote things as they occurred to her and as she had the time. One of the things that I found most restful was that she wasn't always sounding off with strong opinions about this or that. It may have been just how she felt and it doesn't make sense because sometimes people don't.
Julie D. | Homepage | 10.24.08 - 1:39 pm | #