Liane Moriarty is a favorite around here, and I remember reading, but not reviewing (I think that was the year I dropped the ball), The Husband’s Secret and really enjoying it. Boss read it just before me, so I had someone to chat with about it. And while I haven’t gotten around to Big Little Lies yet, everyone seems to love it. So it made sense to pick up anything by Moriarty in hardback for $1 at a yard sale. And it was…okay. At the […]
Must Love Dogs
Oh Jennifer. You’re so fluffy and light and fun and innocuous. Sometimes, that’s just what a girl needs. Nina Askew has just moved in to her new apartment on the second floor of a three flat building. She’s left her dolt of an ex-husband, and she’s forty and fabulous. Well, fabulous on the outside, but as any woman of a certain age knows, sometimes it’s hard to be fabulous on the inside. But Nina’s giving it the old college try, and even goes so far […]
“Life is a series of unlikely events…”
I love Judy Blume. I love her with the same passion I love Paula Danziger and Cynthia Voigt. Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret? and Blubber remain two of my all time favorite books, and I love gifting Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to young readers. For Pete’s sake, I had a crush on Peter, Fudge’s big brother, when I was about eight. He was my first book boyfriend. But…I didn’t love this book. In the winter of 1952, the small town of […]
“Love is worth everything. Everything.”
I had honestly forgotten that I read this until I saw the preview for the movie version ahead of a showing of Beauty and the Beast a few weeks ago. And my gut reaction to the trailer was more of a “huh, that seems familiar” and less of a “hey, I read that!”, so maybe that tells you everything you need to know about this YA novel. Note: spoilers ahead. Madeline Whittier is a real life bubble girl. She cannot leave the house, and only […]
Home Is Where the Heart Is…
The library bookstore is my secret addiction. I don’t get to go often (at least, not in my county, what with the powers that be cutting library hours to a ridiculous degree), but when I do go, I load up. And I would say that of the books I pick up, I have about a 50% success rate. I donate the rest back, which results in a vicious circle where I’ve been known to re-buy previous rejects. (Yeah, I know.) Anyway, of that 50% success […]
Even Casper was a more exciting ghost story than this one
I hate it when I read the blurb about a book and I think it’s going to be one thing, but then it turns out to be totally different, and totally dull. According to the back cover, The Haunting of Josie is about a young woman spending a year in a secluded cabin, untangling the threads of a mystery that killed a man she loved. She’s unprepared for her sexy and dashing neighbor Marc Westbrook, and doesn’t really need the distraction of the tall, dark, […]
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