I Miss You When I Blink Review

I found philpott s writing witty and approachable and she had so many accurate descriptions of life as a middle aged white mother who is balancing career family and the forever pull of wondering if what we have done with our time has been worthwhile.

Mary laura philpott is your typical high achieving type a personality who grew up in the u s. Like with any collection of short stories or essays i connected with some more than others. This isn t a supposedly adorable memoir from the kids say the. Expecting that if she followed all the rules.

After all the first 30 pages of her new memoir i miss you when i blink detail her neuroses about wanting everything to be perfect her insatiable desire and quest for success and a. I miss you when i blink by mary laura philpott murdoch books april 2019 i miss you when i blink is basically a couple of dozen hilarious and insightful anecdotes about relatively ordinary life all strung together in roughly chronological order. I miss you when i blink is a pretty standard book from the memoir genre the writing is good if not particularly insightful or witty and the essays are enjoyable enough although some are better than others but there s nothing particularly special or compelling about this book to meaningfully differentiate it from others.