The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner
I can’t remember the last time I read a Jennifer Weiner book. It’s probably been twenty years! She’s not exactly my current cup of tea (murder, murder, kidnapping that leads to murder, mystery, murder, etc). I think I heard her getting interviewed on npr and the topic just spoke to my soul, so I knew I had to read this book. The gist of this book is about a girl who lives in a larger body, has some issues with that body (both in her […]
It’s hard to think how much good can possibly come from projects like this one. Between the myth series here and the Shakespeare series that’s currently being published by the likes of Jo Nesbo, Margaret Atwood, and Edward St Aubyn, there’s not much in the way of good novels. There’s some interesting takes and various other kinds of things like that, but when a project is sort of “assigned” I think the limits are built in already. It’s the same way about a lot of […]
I am a sucker for diet books; if you struggle with your weight at all, you will understand when I say, the promise of losing weight is really the promise of a better life. Of course it
