The book follows a young woman as she tries to navigate the joy that is the first semester of law school. The good news is that the book isn’t about law school. Because, really, who the hell would want to read that? I still haven’t forgiven Scott Turow for One L. I haven’t figured out what made me want to go to law school either…but that’s a different issue.

The book is about a woman named Kate Bennett, which is good since the book is called Testing Kate . It’s by Whitney Gaskell. This was my first Gaskell book, but she has others. Here’s the cover for Testing Kate:

I liked that this wasn’t a woman-beating-law-school-to-become-first-in-her-class tale. It was a woman-trying-to-understand-life tale. The tone was light and very relatable, even though the subject matter wasn’t always so breezy. It was an impulse buy and very quick read - read it in one sitting.

Since the term “chick lit” is supposedly out, I’ll just call Testing Kate a good example of smart women’s fiction. Unless we’re not supposed to say “smart women’s fiction” either…

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