Elizabeth McCracken – Cannonball Read 17

Reader, this was an absolute delight

Reader, I Married Him by Tracy Chevalier (editor)

December 31, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Reader, we all know how we feel about Jane Eyre. We also know how we feel about that fateful sentence: Reader, I married him. This collection of 21 stories, created to celebrate Charlotte Bronte’s 200th birthday in 2016 and written by an all-female team of authors, all have strong feelings on the matter as well, and these stories run the gamut from the reverent to the satirical. This collection is a jewelry box in your grandmother’s attic full of treasure and cheap pieces alike, and […]

I’d like a refund on these man babies

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

May 5, 2019 by yesknopemaybe 2 Comments

2.5 stars. I picked this up after hearing someone gushing about Elizabeth McCracken’s writing, saying it was amazing and that I needed to read her right away, she’s a national treasure, yada yada yada. So when her new book came up in my library queue, I jumped in. Maybe I should have started with a different book of hers because I really struggled with Bowlaway. It’s bad bad bad when a 384 page books feels a million pages long. I loved the first 1/4 and […]

Socks Mate For Life…

August 14, 2015 by Lynn Leave a Comment

This book. Oh, this lovely, quiet, little book that wormed its way in to my heart and left me weeping. Peggy Cort is the librarian of a small Cape Cod tourist town in the 1950s. She’s the very definition of a spinster in her brown tweed and sensible shoes. She’s lonely, weary with it, resigned to it, defined by it. “Socks mate for life,” she says sadly, and in those words, the reader understands perfectly how desperately Peggy wants to be loved. And then one […]

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