I downloaded Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter on a whim from the library’s website, mainly because I liked the cover, but I’m also a sucker for anything set in the South, and this novel didn’t disappoint. After having finished it, I found a paperback copy at the library bookshop and picked it up for JB, who not only really enjoyed it, but passed it off to his dad, which is just about the highest praise a book can receive. Twenty-five years ago, Silas (“32”) Jones and […]
Not so sweet
I remembered reading another of Stephanie Evanovich’s books (Big Girl Panties) awhile ago, but didn’t remember too much about it, other than it was kind of a serviceable romance, and I needed something to listen to on my commute, so I downloaded The Sweet Spot from the library’s website. And then I remembered that I didn’t much like Big Girl Panties. And then I remembered why. The Sweet Spot was written after Big Girl Panties, but is set a couple of years before it, chronicling […]
“Smile, it can’t be that bad! Yeah, actually it can.”
I read Gone Girl a couple of years ago and while at the time I thought it was okay, the farther I get from it, the less I like it. It was a runaway hit, as we all know, but it just didn’t quite live up to the hype for me. So when I found a copy of Dark Places at the local library book shop, I figured I would give Gillian another shot. But just like Gone Girl, she lost me at the ending, […]
Ranger will always be my book boyfriend
I sort of gave up on Stephanie Plum a few books ago. I think I was in the middle of something else when the latest book came out and Mom had to get her copy back to the library before I could read it, and besides, Mom said it was kind of “meh”, so I just never really pursued it. But recently Mom read the latest installment and said Janet’s got her groove back, so while I’m waiting for the digital copy to become available, […]
Mama was right: you DO have to kiss a lot of frogs
I’m not sure quite how to classify You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs. It reads like a memoir but I think it might be fiction. Either way, it’s an interesting look at dating adventures. The novel opens with our narrator Karrie Klein attending yet another bridal shower for yet another friend, enduring the questions about when it will be her turn to get married. She doesn’t normally worry about her perpetually single status, but she’s 45, her acting prospects are drying up, her […]
Sing me a lullaby
I follow John Green on Facebook and a few months ago, he posted about Sarah Dessen’s new novel (the name of which escapes me at the moment), and I figured that since I harbor a) a secret love for YA fiction and b) a secret love for John Green, I’d give her a whirl and downloaded This Lullaby, which was what was available from Overdrive. And it was… okay, I guess? The story follows eighteen year old Remy during that magical time between high school […]
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