Declaring Spinsterhood, by Jamie Lynn Braziel
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Declaring Spinsterhood, by Jamie Lynn Braziel
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Emma Bailey is fed up with the dating scene, and if she hears her mother nag one more time about getting married…well, she’s had it, and she wants everyone to know it. In a moment of clarity (or insanity?), she announces to the world that she will never marry. No husband and no kids; no worries about diapers, driving lessons, or divorce. Her friends are there for her, but they’re also involved in their own lives and loves, so off she goes into a world of casual dating. But what happens when the avowed spinster, the woman who has supposedly tucked her heart into a safe little space, suddenly realizes that her best friend Brian means more to her? Jamie Lynn Braziel’s Declaring Spinsterhood delivers with this enjoyable romp through dating, friendship, and passion.
Declaring Spinsterhood, by Jamie Lynn Braziel - Published on: 2015-09-15
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 5 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Declaring Spinsterhood, by Jamie Lynn Braziel Amazon.com Review A Q&A with Jamie Lynn Braziel Question: You've said that you modeled Emma Bailey, the main character in Declaring Spinsterhood, on your own life. How much of you is in her character and how much is purely fiction?
Jamie Lynn Braziel: Emma's character is almost purely fiction. In a lot of ways, I wrote her as the woman I would like to be. She's so much more empathetic, spunky, adventurous, and outgoing. Growing up, I was always the girl with her nose stuck in a book. As for boys, I became painfully shy around the ones I really liked. Emma's completely different, and I aspire to her boldness.
Question: Even in our modern world, there's still pressure for 30-somethings to get married and settle down. Do you think that comes from society, from other women in the same situation, or from within?
Jamie Lynn Braziel: I think society plays a big part, and the pressure begins very early. As girls, we are constantly being sold the fairytale of princess meets prince, falls in love, gets married, and lives happily ever after. Then we are nurtured by society, family, and friends to anticipate the beginning of the dating ritual. In my day, this was to happen around your Sweet Sixteen. All of a sudden, you have a lot of 16-year-old girls whose confidence plummets when they don't get asked out by a boy; this is when the pressure gets internalized. For those who do get asked, they quickly have the fairytale blinders ripped from their eyes and get to face the reality of love and marriage. It's not always happily ever after, and when it is, it takes hard work to make it so.
Question: Emma is quite happy with her life as a bookstore owner but your day job is in accounting. Have you ever thought about opening a bookstore? What inspired you to write that career path for Emma?
Jamie Lynn Braziel: Doing anything related to books and reading has always been a dream for me. In fact, I wanted to be a librarian when I was girl, even going so far as trying to start a lending library among my friends and familys with my small collection of books. That is until I realized that not everyone revered books as much as I did. I quickly closed the library when my books came back with corners folded, water stains on the cover, or worse. Opening a bookstore is the ultimate dream for a booklover, but it is also a very difficult business proposition in this day and age. So, Emma gets to live my dream in her world while I crunch the numbers and pay the bills in mine with a little bookish dabbling on the side. The bookstore idea appeals to my creative side, and accounting appeals to my need for order and tidy answers.
Question: And you're a big Nancy Drew collector! When did you start collecting and how big is your collection now? Any favorite editions?
Jamie Lynn Braziel: Yes, I am! When I received my very first library card at about the age of eight, which I still have by the way, the first book I checked out was a Nancy Drew. I was hooked. My grandpa would give each of us grandkids $5 a month, and I spent mine on Nancy Drew books. My collection now numbers over 400, and it's still growing. My favorites will always be my complete set of The Nancy Drew Files.
Question: What's next for you? Any other novels or writing projects you're working on that you can share with us?
Jamie Lynn Braziel: First, I am finally graduating with my Masters of Science degree in Accounting after nearly six very long years. Then I will give my brain a much needed break and try to catch up on all the sleep I've missed. Because homework didn't leave me much time for reading, I now have a huge list of books waiting to be read on my Kindle. As soon as I've recuperated, I'll bring out the storylines that have been simmering in the back of my mind and cook up a wonderful second novel. Hopefully. As a little teaser, it might just have something to do with that so-called fairytale I discussed earlier.
About the Author Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Jamie Lynn Braziel attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University, where she majored in English and minored in French. A financial analyst, the author is working towards a master's degree in accounting.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful. Smile fondly as you remember your youth, whether decades ago or just yesterday. By Old Granny What if people were truly rational and always made good choices without having to go through all the messiness of EXPERIENCE and real life. Could we just skip the embarrassment, please? No, thank you. That would eliminate all the fun of observing the characters in Jamie Lynn Braziel's Declaring Spinsterhood as they stumble and fumble through the same kind of experiences that we survived, or fervently hope we will survive. Whether the reader identifies with the delightful but confused Emma or steadfast (and confused) Brian or even Emma's mother (who wants Emma to be happy in the socially approved manner) this well written and delightful journey through the hazards of misreading other people as well as ourselves is fun to read and experience. Braziel has produced a book that is lucidly written with a clear understanding of human strengths and a generous dollop of forgiveness for human frailties.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Too Many Issues Here By Tracy Frustrated by a string of bad blind dates and fed up with her family nagging her about still being single at thirty, Emma Bailey makes a stand and declares her intent to remain a spinster. Unfortunately, her moment of dating emancipation doesn't quite go as planned. Her mother nearly disowns her, the rest of her family doesn't believe her, and no sooner does she embrace singlehood than her ex-boyfriend Steve wants to get back together with her and she realizes she's in love with her best friend Brian.And here she thought she was making her life LESS complicated.Declaring Spinsterhood starts off with a decent, if unoriginal concept, but gets quickly tripped up by several significant issues, and despite the fact that the best-friends-to-lovers theme is one of my favorites in contemporary romance, unlikable characters and inconsistent storytelling kept me from getting any pleasure in the read.Emma is a nightmare of wildly vacillating and overly exaggerated emotional reactions and utterly lacked anything resembling a backbone. I got so tired of her reiterating that declaration of spinsterhood...as she prepares for dates. Not that she called them dates.They were dates.She has the emotional maturity of a hormone-jacked thirteen year old with ADD and couldn't stand up to her family if her life depended on it, though with a mother like hers I can sort of understand that. Third world dictators are kinder and less judgmental than that woman. I've rarely read a character I found as irredeemably odious as mummy dearest, and the hypocrisy she bandied about turned my stomach. She's supposed to be this deeply religious wife of a minister, yet tells Emma she's no longer welcome in her home if she's going to remain unmarried. Seriously??She's constantly critical, purposely subversive, and openly manipulative, and throughout the entire book fails to say one kind thing to Emma - in fact blames Emma's lack of a husband (as does the rest of her family) on Emma being too choosey, even after Emma is almost molested at the end of one particularly bad date. Lets just say I wouldn't go out of my way to get a Mother's Day card for the woman, though she certainly gives Joan Crawford a run for her money.Brian wasn't bad. He was a nice source of support for Emma (though I would have preferred it had she not so desperately needed his support as often as she did), and the scenes with their time together as friends were some of the brightest in the book. I also liked Emma's friend and coworker Kathy. She was the most balanced and emotionally mature of the secondary characters and she provided the vast majority of the common sense, calm reason, and insight.Beyond the myriad of character issues there were plotting and pacing issues, and some rather odd and abrupt transitions that were weakly supported by the thin narrative. Sensitive readers should be aware that there was a scene of graphic brutality in the book, and while it was arguably well written, some may consider it gruesomely descriptive. I appreciated it from a technical standpoint, as it showed descriptive skill in both the action and emotion of the assault, but I was puzzled by its vicious severity and question it's necessity. It didn't make sense in relation to the plot and the alleged motivation of the perpetrator (can't exactly drag a half-dead, brutalized woman into a bank to access a safety deposit box without raising a few eyeballs), and served as nothing but poorly contrived impetus to jump start the romantic resolution of the book. Which was also abrupt, ill defined, and questionably placed.Too many things went very wrong in this book. There are glimmers of more positive things, like the likable secondary characters and solid technical writing technique, but in the end there just wasn't enough of them for me.
38 of 49 people found the following review helpful. Bad Read By D. Morton I didn't enjoy this book at all. I've never felt compelled to write a review before, but this book was such a waste of time, I just had to share my thoughts.I found the main character pretty annoying - she put up with a lot of crap from her family, and never really stood up for herself. In the one scene that she does try to stand up for herself to her family (particularly her mother), she ends up backing down in the next! I also found the mother a difficult character to stomach. She was more concerned with appearances and her own definition of happiness than in her daughter. It was very annoying to read. What kind of mother would not believe her own daughter when she's told that the blind date she set her daughter up with was a letch who needed to be fought off at the end of the night?! Granted, I'm sure that there are people out there that similar situations have happened to, but I just found it difficult to reconcile the fact that the daughter couldn't stand up to her mother and family, but managed to stand up to her ex-boyfriend for the whole period of their relationship when it came to sex.The main love interest seemed like an all around good guy, but kind of a wimp. I thought he should have spoken about his true feelings a lot sooner (and ended the book a lot sooner, too). I also found one extremely violent (and somewhat disturbing) scene to be "tacked on" it was almost gratuitous - there could have been far better ways to advance the plot, I think.Like some of the other reviewers have said, I found the writing style to be somewhat clumsy and uneven. Facts just seemed to be dropped in, whether it made sense and flowed with the story or not.Overall, I would give this book a big miss!
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