I’m 87% sure that I read this book once before, but it doesn’t appear as though I reviewed it so I’m counting it. Also? There are approximately eleventy billion books out there called “Heat Wave”. It took me like, five pages on the Amazon search to find this. I feel like we can come up with a more unique title, kids. Kat Vargas is a private investigator living in California by way of Hawaii. She’s tiny, tough, and she’s built a wall around her heart […]
Buy a cookbook, people. It’s not that hard.
I confessed earlier that I’m not a fan of the Shopaholic books, but I read Can You Keep a Secret? and realized that it wasn’t so bad, so I thought I’d give Kinsella another shot, and picked up The Undomestic Goddess from a pile at my sister’s. And then I remembered why I didn’t really like her. Samantha Sweeting is a high powered London attorney who makes a big mistake at work on the eve of her partnership. The mistake is gigantic – like, millions […]
If you can’t keep a secret, come sit by me…
I confess I’m not a fan of the Shopaholic books. I tried one and I just couldn’t get in to it. I don’t mind books with heroines who are a little bit of a mess – I actually quite enjoy them because it reminds me that it’s okay that I’m a little bit of a mess – but there was just something about the Shopaholic books that I just couldn’t deal with. So I’ve always resisted Sophia Kinsella’s other books, thinking that they would be […]
Where the wild things are…
I’m going to Alaska next week because my best friend is getting married. A couple of friends are coming with me, along with their son and The Kid. Somehow or other, I got conned in to agreeing to go camping in Denali during this trip. And not even in a cabin, but outside. In a tent. With a sleeping bag. On the ground. With, you know, bears and moose. I’ve gone nearly 40 years without peeing outside; I have a real fear that streak may […]
A modern day Huck Finn with a (very) sinister twist
This came to me from JB, who has an affinity for coming-of-age stories, and although this mystery certainly doesn’t seem like one on the surface, I can’t think of a better way to categorize it. A year ago, twelve year old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared, seen being pulled in to a van by Jack Cross, the son of a local policeman. Alyssa’s father, feeling responsible for the disappearance because he was late picking her up, runs off shortly afterward. Alyssa’s mother, unable to cope with the […]
Can you hear me now? How ’bout now?
I’ve been sitting on this review for a while because I’m not really sure how I feel about this book. (Well, that, plus I’m lazy. And real life keeps interrupting. And the Kid wants food, like, every day, and Boss expects me to be sort of productive at work, so… book reviews tend to fall to the wayside at times.) In any event, I’m not sure how I feel about Landline. I loved Attachments, which was my first Rowell book, and I feel that if […]
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