Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham

Franny Banks is living in New York City circa 1995 trying to be an actress. She set herself a deadline: by the time her boyfriend in Chicago graduated from law school, she should know if acting is her way of life or just something she can say she tried. We join her 6 months till her deadline and she seems no closer than when she started. We meet her roommates, Jane and Dan: Jane is a production assistant and Franny's cheerleader and Dan is the engaged guy trying to write a science fiction screenplay.

It was not until the end of chapter 29 (of 32) that I saw what Graham was trying to say with this book. Prior to this point in the novel, we've been following a jaded Franny in her in her every day life: acting classes, auditions, dating, agents.. Franny has lost hope and Dan tries to cheer her up by describing the character in a J.D. Salinger story that Franny is named her after: J.D. Salinger's Franny carries around a book, The Way of the Pilgrim, which says that repetition brings enlightenment. I prefer how Dan interprets it: "the idea that quantity becomes quality." Throughout the whole book Graham's Franny has been filling her Filofax and Dan tries to get her to understand that if she "keeps filling up the pages" that "something is bound to happen." And so I found myself understanding the beauty of Franny's life as told by Lauren Graham.

I started reading it but I ended up listening to the audiobook which is read by Lauren Graham. And I thought that was really great: an actress reading her own book so you could really hear what she meant with her words. I have no doubt that listening to that audiobook gave me a better understanding of the exact tone was trying to convey from her novel. I liked it. Oh and I have to mention that the #1 reason I decided to read the book in the first place is because I really liked Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore in Gilmore Girls.

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