What Christopher is reading

Christopher says: I picked it up for the provocative cover. I stayed for the story of a woman I desperately wanted to like, but whose life is a train-wreck of bad choices. Anna is an intelligent, accomplished, forty-something woman and doting mother haunted by a disastrous marriage, a divorce that propelled her to another hemisphere, and a history of alcoholism that she only seems to have under control. But, a party at her friend and neighbor’s leads to meeting Jack, the boy, a 20-year-old college drop-out and eldest son of her neighbor. Jack pursues Anna relentlessly, despite her objections, and the egg-shell of control Anna has cracks. Not even all the king’s horses and all the king’s men can put her life back together again.

Christopher says: Neill comes to grips with bachelorhood and tries to understand what keeps going wrong in all of his relationships, all while having conversations with his deceased father in the form of a computer A.I. he’s developing. A strange and humorous look at love, how it works, and how it falls apart.