Jane Green – Cannonball Read 17

The Holiday, but with less romance and more self-empowerment

Swapping Lives by Jane Green

December 20, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Vicki Townsend is a 30 something London singleton who works as an editor at Poise!, a popular UK woman’s magazine. Amber Winslow is a 30 something ‘desperate housewife’ in the posh NYC commuter suburbs who has given up a promising legal career to be a stay at home mom and small town socialite. Both Vicki and Amber feel like the grass is greener on the other side of the ‘married with children’ divide, and so when Poise! decides to do a feature on just that […]

This book should be called DUNCE Road

May 19, 2016 by Lynn Leave a Comment

Oh, Jane. I had such high hopes for you after reading Family Pictures, so I read Mr. Maybe, which wasn’t a home run with me, but I wanted to give you another chance. But I think I might have to break up with you after reading this. You nearly did me in. Plus? Halfway through I realized I’d read this before but I still read it again, and now I’m a little mad at myself. Dune Road is the story of middle-aged Kit, who is […]

Mr. Maybe You Should Skip This One

June 2, 2015 by Lynn Leave a Comment

I think the first Jane Green book I read was Family Pictures, and it was fantastic, so I had pretty high hopes for Mr. Maybe, but unfortunately, it fell flat for me. Libby is a twenty-something single woman living in London. She works in PR, handling mainly local B-list celebrities, including the local morning news personality Amanda. She has a best friend, Jules, who is married to an awesome guy named Jamie, and a relatively good circle of friends. But the one thing she doesn’t […]

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