This book was just OK. I listened to the audio book, and enjoyed Carrington MacDuffie's smooth narration. The plot was somewhat predictable, but took an interesting approach to the mother/daughter dynamic. What would it be like to work with your mom? Ack!

Some of the book was just plain implausible, however, like the fact that after about 30 seconds of interning, mother and daughter were given their own radio show. Huh? ( )

This is a very funny book, I really enjoyed reading it. The author doesn't always say out loud what she thinks but you get to read what she is thinking and what she is thinking is will make you laugh out load. ( )

I absolutely loved this book! It was sweet, realistic, and at times had me laughing out loud. Claire Cook really knows how to hit close to home without making her characters seem fake or strained. ( )

A mother and her teenage daugher are simultaneously attending different colleges but end up working together at the same radio station, much to the daughter's dismay. A pleasant, humorous story told from the point of view of the 40-something mom, who's trying to decide what she wants to do with her life, now that her kids are almost grown. Several interesting secondary characters are well-drawn and add to the overall enjoyment of the story. ( )

From inside flap: "March Monroe and her daughter, Olivia, are going to college. Not together at the same school, of course, just at the same time. March knows that Olivia is going, naturally, since she and her husband have just made their first exorbitant tuition payment. But Olivia doesn't exactly know the arrangement...yet. It's not as if March plans never to tell her; she just figures she'll wait a bit--until they've had a little time to miss each other. So imagine Olivia's surprise when one day she shows up for training at a local radio station and finds out that one of the other interns is her mother." I laughed over some of the mother-daughter encounters and smiled wistfully at some of March's dreams and hopes not only for herself but for her daughter, too. Favorite passage: p. 5 - "I don't want to finish my degree to get a better job. I want to take classes that are brainy and ethereal and totally impractical. I want to major in something that won't get me anywhere in the real world. Something exotic and multisyllabic." Lots of identifiable passages regarding older students and what they face when returning to college. Slice of life style. Attended reading/signing June 30 at Brookline Booksmith. ( )