Grade: 4.75 out of 5
In Mindy’s yoga-obsessed, thirty-is-the-new-wife neighborhood, every day is a battle between Dunkin’ Donuts, her jaws-of-life jeans, and Beth Diamond, the self-absorbed sancti-mommy next door who looks sixteen from the back. So much for sharing the chores, the stores, and the occasional mischief to rival Wisteria Lane.
It’s another day, another dilemma until Beth’s marriage becomes fodder on Facebook. Suddenly the Ivy Keague blonde needs to be “friended,” and Mindy is the last mom standing. Together they take on hormones and hunger, family feuds and fidelity, and a harrowing journey that spills the truth about an unplanned pregnancy and a seventy-year-old miracle that altered their fates forever.
Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead is a hilarious, stirring romp over fences and defenses that begs the question, what did you do to deserve living next door to a crazy woman? Sometimes it’s worth finding out.
This was another one of those really quick reads and holy hot damn, this book was hilarious. This book is about Mindy Sherman and Beth Diamond, both are mothers and next door neighbors. One is kinda on the frumpy side but hecka funny (Mindy) and the other is the perfect, skinny bitch from next door (Beth), they’re neighbors, carpool buddies and yeah, that’s about it. Mindy can’t stand Beth but tolerates her because she takes her kids to school when she can’t and Beth can’t stand Mindy and doesn’t care if Mindy knows she finds her totally lacking.
Mindy is normal and Beth is that annoyingly perfect bitch from next door with her perfect house, her perfect hair/body/makeup. Mindy would be like Lynette from Desperate Housewives and Beth is Bree Van de Camp.
The book is about life. It’s about friendships, trials and family. You start this book and you meet the characters and then you laugh with them, you rejoice with them and you want to poke their eyes and at the end of the book, you’re all mad that you finished the book in such a short amount of time because now the good times are done and you don’t have any Mindy scenes to make you crack the hell up and you don’t have any more I can’t believe Beth said that or did that or anything and it’s just a really fun book about life in the suburbs, about what everyone is thinking, saying and doing. It’s a hilarious story that follows these two women through their lives and I swear I couldn’t stop laughing.
It’s not one of those deep, make you analyze your life kind of books. It’s just a fun read and I really enjoyed it.
Mindy was fantastic! I loved her, her family, her moody teenaged daughter and I loved her personality. She was a laugh a minute and if she were real, I would totally be friends with her. She’s so real. The way she was with Artie and the kids had me smiling, laughing and just happy.
She had a great family and a great life and like all normal women, they always wanted more and take what they had for granted until they get a glimpse into the lives of those lives that they want so bad.
Like Beth. Beth was so different from Mindy, she seemed so put together with the perfect family, the perfect house, the perfect life and yet it isn’t always as it seems. She had her own issues that she was trying to deal with and after you get to know her a little better, you don’t hate her as much as you first thought. You understand, you sympathize and then you smile because Mindy does something or says something that cracks you the heck up.
Watching Mindy become Beth’s only friend was frickin’ hilarious. I enjoyed the interactions between these two, sometimes it got to be a bit much but it wasn’t annoying to the point where you’d want to put the book down or throw the book against the wall. I’m telling you guys, this book is really funny. I enjoyed it quite a bit and I’m sure you will too. I enjoyed it so much that Saralee Rosenberg that I’m putting her on my list of authors to glom.
Should you read this book? Heck to the yes. Give her a try and see if she’s your cuppa tea. I’m glad that I was given the opportunity to read this book because I seriously enjoyed it. Am already looking forward to my next Saralee Rosenberg, now if only I can find the time to fit her into my reading schedule. So many books to read, not enough time to fit her in but I shall try.
Good book.