See Jane Run, Joy Fielding
(01 Apr, 2019 – 02 May, 2019
I'm back! Yes it has been a while, I know. You all (all being my sister, hi Emily!) thought I’d forgotten, or given up. No no no, I merely decided to start 4 books and not finish any of them. But finally, FINALLY I finished one. One month and one day it took me to read See Jane Run, by Joy Fielding.
Before I talk about See Jane Run, let me explain what happened after finishing Fahrenheit 451. The next book to read seemed obvious: Brave New World, Aldous Huxely. What better book to read after a futuristic dystopian classic than a futuristic dystopian classic? As it turns out, basically anything else. Brave New World is a tough book. As I’ve mentioned before, being a chemistry major meant that I wasn’t exposed to many books in college, and therefore I’ve mostly been reading 21st century romance and fantasy. I really wasn’t used to the writing style of Brave New World and I think the shock might have broken me a little (yes I’m being dramatic). I didn’t want to give up on the book, but I definitely didn’t want to keep reading it. A friend of mine suggested maybe I take a break, read something new, and come back to Brave New World. It was a good suggestion supposing I would actually read another book in the meantime. Setting Brave New World aside, I turned to “The O’Reilly Factor for kids” by Bill O’Reilly, thinking the “for kids” aspect would warrant a quick read. But the 40 pages I got through were a cocky man’s ramblings about being a kid in an era he was not a kid in. It was not what I needed. So I set that aside and started “The Double Helix” by James Watson, because my sister said she’d read it in one train ride. While it was hard to read, I really appreciated it, as it wasn’t a scientific book, rather a book about the drama surrounding a scientific discovery. I made it three quarters of the way through and stopped for no reason. That’s when I picked up See Jane Run.
I needed a book I was going to finish. I needed a fiction book with a story because that’s what I was used to reading. Even though I was almost finished with “The Double Helix” I needed to not be reading it anymore. (Disclaimer: I fully intend to finish the three books I started in this little hiatus).
I have absolutely no idea how See Jane Run got into my bookshelf. I don’t know how long it has been there, and when I asked my mom, she had never seen the book before. Therefore, I deduced that it was a library book sale purchase from my sister. Why haven’t I read it until now? To be honest, I really didn’t even know I had this book until I organized my bookshelf for this endeavor.
This book was okay. It was average. There really wasn’t anything special about it. It gives you a situation to start with: a woman finds herself in Boston with ten thousand dollars, a bloodstained dress, and no memory of who she is. Throughout the story, you learn that her husband has been drugging her, and Jane doesn’t know why, but she is always suspecting him of something. I think that’s what makes it so predictable. If Jane hadn’t been so untrusting of her husband, I never would have assumed anything. The events in the story also were very repetitive and it made reading the book seem like it was taking forever.
Alright, let me wrap this up. I definitely had a lot to say, but in my defense, it’s been a minute. Here’s the short version. Thank you “See Jane Run” I’m sure you will find a better home somewhere else.
1,390 pages down, 245 days to go.
