I’m going to be honest with y’all, I heard about The Girl on the Train through a recommendation on Reese Witherspoon’s instagram page. I figure if she is making Big Little Lies into an HBO miniseries and produced last year’s Gone Girl she must have pretty good literary taste. And she does! There are a lot of comparisons between The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl floating around and they aren’t incorrect. There are multiple narratives told by unreliable narrators with a missing woman […]
Love Until Later
Sometimes, after a particularly disappointing book, you need to bring in a ringer. Why Girls are Weird is Pamela Ribon’s first novel which was inspired by her early 2000s blog Pamie.com. It is the story of Anna Koval who creates the online persona Anna K to learn HTML and create a collection of funny stories for a friend’s birthday gift. She sprinkles fact and fiction throughout her website, her most deceitful lie is telling her public she is still in a relationship with her ex-boyfriend […]
They Can’t All Be Winners
Discovering a new author presents a Catch-22 for the fanatical. Most likely you began by reading the newest, and arguably best, novel of an established author and therefore feel the need to read their entire collection of published works. However, once you begin reading backwards you realize you’re watching someone regress into a novice and feel like you were lied to. This isn’t the author you know, this is someone who clearly has a relative in publishing! I call this the John Green Effect, or […]
All About Bette
Ironically I received two copies of Dark Victory for Christmas this past December but didn’t manage to read either copy until now. The (only) problem with receiving 18 books between December and my birthday in March is it takes forever to get through them all, particularly if you continue to borrow books from relatives. Dark Victory combined two of my favorite things: Old Hollywood and true stories of bad ass women. This is a pretty straightforward biography; it is well researched and goes from birth […]
The Girl in the Painting
I hadn’t heard of Jojo Moyes before reading The Last Letter From Your Lover back in April, but she is fast approaching a must-read author for me. Part One of The Girl You Left Behind begins in Occupied France in late 1916; Sophie Lefevre is doing her best to keep her family safe from the German soldiers who traipse through her hotel bar when a new Kommandant begins to take an interest in her and a portrait her husband painted of her before the war. […]
Funny Lady Flirts with Disaster
The summer between seventh and eighth grade I was riding my bike to the orthodontist while wearing flip flops when I stopped suddenly and my unprotected big toe was nearly severed by my kickstand. It’s not exactly catching my ballerina outfit on fire while riding on the back of my father’s motorcycle… but I could relate to some of Aisha’s childhood clumsiness. Our similarities ended in middle school (my drunken stories don’t start until the end of my senior year in high school) but Aisha’s […]
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