Another Southern mystery/romance/fantasy from Sarah Addison Allen. I need to not read these back to back — they tend to run together, and I run out of things to say beyond “these are so sweet and cute and fun!”. “We’re connected, as women. It’s like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there’s trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we’re just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don’t help each other, who will?” So fancy […]
Magic wallpaper & a ghost in the yard
More sweet sugar from Sarah Addison Allen. I really liked The Girl Who Chased the Moon — there’s a couple of mysteries to solve, a lovely young lady as a main character (not to mention her gentle giant of a grandfather), and some magical cake-making. Definitely one of her better novels. “Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn’t have to live down someone else’s.” The Girl Who Chased the Moon follows two main characters. First, there’s teenage Emily Benedict, who has come to North Carolina […]
Well, this one will be a movie soon, I bet
Mary Kubica’s The Good Girl has been endlessly compared to Gone Girl (primarily because the titles are similar, would be my bet), and while it offers similar suspense and mystery, it’s really a different book. It’s not quite as good, in my opinion — just not as tightly plotted — but still very enjoyable and compelling. And it has one hell of an ending — it blindsided me and made me want to reread the whole damn thing. “I didn’t set out to be a bad mother, […]
SCTV, SNL, Broadway & Hollywood
I didn’t know too much about Martin Short before listening to the audio version of his autobiography, I Must Say. His time on SCTV and SNL came before I started watching those shows, and his late night talk show on Comedy Central — Primetime Glick — made me crazy (he has created a lot of intentional obnoxious characters — Jiminy Glick, Ed Grimley, etc.). But he’s been in a few of my favorite movies, The Three Amigos, The Father of the Bride movies and Jungle 2 Jungle (Mimisiku!), so I’m familiar […]
Nellie Oleson and the girl who played her
Although I was a huge fan of the books as a kid, I don’t think I’ve ever watched an episode of the TV show Little House on the Prairie. However, I saw Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated and the titled intrigued me, so I snagged it. It turned out to be a really good read — dark and funny. Alison Arngrim definitely has the whole, “heal thyself through laughter” thing down. And the girl has a lot to […]
This just…wasn’t very good
I was pretty psyched to read Liane Moriarty’s new novel, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, because I loved the last two books I read by her (Big Little Lies and What Alice Forgot). Both had twisty plot lines full of mysteries and last minute reveals. I could not put either one of them down because I felt so desperate to find out how they ended! In contrast, if The Hypnotist’s Love Story hadn’t been a Moriarty book, I would have dropped it about 100 pages in. My belief in her […]
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