The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Hello everyone. I hope your day has been a pleasant one.

I wasn't always a housewife, I used to actually work (outside the home). I worked in the credit cards industry for years, doing everything from starting a new card program to seeing it sold off and all aspects in between. Want to know about credit card fraud or merchant services, I'm your girl. For real fun, (read with a sexy whisper) I'll show you how to compute an average daily balance. 

When it became more practical for me to stay home, I wanted to do the housewife job well.  I wanted to clean like a dream (I'm laughing so hard now I might fall out of my chair). I wanted to know all the little tricks from packing the perfect suitcase, to making silver shine.  I wanted to be able to cook like a world class chef, but just for my family.  Let's face it, I wanted to be a Stepford Wife, heck I still do I just start to lose my lunch every time I even think about dusting.

I recently read The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. Now if you are a youngster and have only seen the more recent movie, it's nothing like the book. The original movie, however, sticks much closer to the novel.  We see how the women of the town of Stepford only have time to clean their homes and take care of their husbands and children. The reader witnesses Joanna desperately trying to get the women to do something together that doesn't involve dirt removal.  Like the movie, it doesn't work and she is left without friends except for one, Bobbie. Sadly, one day all Bobbie wants to do is clean her house. As Joanna's dissatisfaction grows, so does the distance between her and her husband, Walter.  Now, she's sure he and others from the town are up to something nefarious.  This fun book is  rapidly read, requiring barely more than an hour as it's just over one hundred pages.  Interesting to note, Ira Levin also wrote several other books including Rosemary's Baby.

Think I'll see if I can get someone to hypnotize me so I love cleaning house and want to do nothing else.....or better yet, hypnotize my husband.  I bet he can dust with the best of them!