Today Will Be Different (Semple) - Book Reviews

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Let me say upfront: I couldn’t put the thing down. Today Will Be Different shows us a woman all too many readers will feel an immediate kinship with. Her life teeters on the edge of out-of-control, but she is determined to do things differently. That way, she thinks, she’ll end up with a nice, neat, perfectly-ordered life—one that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.  READ MORE.
Cara Kless - LitLovers


[F]unny, smart, emotionally reverberant.... The success of this poetic, seriously funny and brainy dream of a novel...has to do with Maria Semple's range of riffs and preoccupations. All kinds of detalis, painful and perverse and deeply droll, cling to her heroine and are appraised and examined and skewered and simply wondered at. If that's considered a trick, readers of Semple's novel will be overjoyed to fall for it.
Meg Wolitzer - New York Times Book Review


Hilarious [and] heartwarming.... The book follows a restless Eleanor, who sets out to reinvigorate her life, only to be shoved astray by a number of chance setbacks
Dana Getz - Entertainment Weekly


[A] sharp, funny read.... Though Eleanor is snarky, her troubles and growing calamities are engaging.... In the end, the novel wraps up too neatly, but the ride is consistently entertaining.
Publishers Weekly


An introspective look, both comedic and tragic, at attempting to be the best one can be: wife, mother, or sibling. While not as laugh-out-loud funny as Where'd You Go, this book will satisfy fans of Semple and satire. —Stephanie Sendaula
Library Journal


(Starred review.) A day in the life of an enchanting and gifted woman who is almost too frazzled to go on... [F]ew will be indifferent to this achingly funny and very dear book. This author is on her way to becoming a national treasure.
Kirkus Reviews