Book Review

• Citation: Vol. 26 No. 5 Pg. 0066
• Publication year: 2021
• Pages: 0066
• Year: 2021

Book Review No. Vol. 26 No. 5 Pg. 66 Georgia Bar Journal April, 2021

If You Did What I Asked in the First Place

By Lori B. Duff 222 pages, Deeds Publishing

REVIEWED BY ROXANN SHERRI SMITHERS

Remember the good old days of March 2020? The prospect of a few weeks to a month of respite from the rat race of "normal" life was the begrudging silver lining in the cloud of a pandemic-induced shutdown. Many of us movers and shakers mused about the hobbies we would take up and the skills we would acquire. Soon the reality of the pandemic, politics and social unrest tarnished that silver lining. This was the climate in which I started reading Lori B. Duffs "If You Did What I Asked in the First Place" in the fall of 2020. Duffs breezy missive arrived just in the nick of time. "If You Did ..." is a collection of essays, comical confessions and a few poems about her life as a woman of a certain age, Georgia attorney and judge, mother, wife and author. The vignettes are...