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This is a bit late in the day, but I spent this morning trying to finish my book for book club. Then I went to my book club meeting. We read "The Last Days of California" by Mary Miller. I had been meaning to read this book for awhile, after we selected it for our next book. Of course, I put it off to the last minute. I can't say that I was particularly moved by the book. I think the funniest bit, or perhaps the most impactful, is that I could relate each character to a point or person in my life.

The family goes on a pilgrimage to California to experience the rapture. They believe that they will watch the rapture happen and ascend to Heaven. As usually happens with predictions of the end of the world, the claims are false and the pilgrimage is for nothing but a bit of personal growth. Jess and Elise go around the country drinking, meeting boys and losing their faith. 

Each of the characters has a trait that I've seen in people before; though perhaps not the belief in the immediate rapture. Though I wasn't really moved, I have to give Miller a lot of credit because her characters were very well developed. They seemed very real. Maybe that's why the book didn't sit right with me. The characters were a little too real...

catch you later,

Karleigh

“I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.” // Mary Miller, The Last Days of California: A Novel