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Every year I say, "This is my year". So: this is my year! (Maybe.)

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No one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask what side they’re on.

August 25, 2016 by Lynn 3 Comments

When I was little, my mother had an avocado green Tupperware bowl. She also had a red one and a harvest gold one, and I’m pretty sure there was a blue one, too. They were different sizes, but they all had lids that had a translucent sort of flower pattern on top, so they were obviously part of a set. The bowl itself was also translucent, and more often than not, the green Tupperware bowl sat on the second shelf of our fridge with bunches […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: coming-of-age, Mark Childress, Southern, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: coming-of-age, Mark Childress, Southern, The Mama ·
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“Other people can’t make you feel stupid. Only you can.”

August 25, 2016 by Lynn Leave a Comment

It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for good YA fiction. And Tell Me Three Things is good YA fiction. Actually, let me clarify that statement. Tell Me Three Things is good YA fiction if you’re the target demographic. If, like me, you’re slightly older than the target demographic and have celebrated many anniversaries of your twenty-ninth birthday, you may not feel the same, but my inner fifteen year old loved it. It’s the beginning of Jessie’s junior year of high school. Her mother died […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Julie Buxbaum, The Mama, YA

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Julie Buxbaum, The Mama, YA ·
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Better than listening to NPR report on the presidential race for the 84 billionth time

August 25, 2016 by Lynn Leave a Comment

I have a pretty long commute, and I spend a lot of time in the car. There’s only so much NPR I can handle during election season, and listening to audio books appears to keep the road rage to a minimum. But I need them to be light and fluffy romance novels, or else I can’t also concentrate on driving. I live in Florida, home of the alligators, the snowbirds, and the worst drivers known to man, so I’ve got to pay attention. So some […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Kristan Higgins, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Kristan Higgins, The Mama ·
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It’s no Good in Bed…

August 25, 2016 by Lynn Leave a Comment

This made the rounds a few weeks ago (baxlala and Jenny S posted reviews), and I pretty much agree with them, that this was good, but not great, and certainly not as great as I’ve come to expect from Weiner. Rachel, who was born with a heart defect, is a veteran of hospitals, and she’s wandering about one night at eight years old when she meets Andy, also eight, in the ER waiting room. Andy’s been brought in because he fell off of a hotel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Jennifer Weiner, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Jennifer Weiner, The Mama ·
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I’m still mad about Bridget Jones…

August 22, 2016 by Lynn 4 Comments

Bridget Jones and I are about the same age. When I was younger, I loved her. I don’t know as I wanted to be her friend because she was a bit exasperating, but I loved her. I got her. I got the Daniel Cleaver thing. I got the Mark Darcy thing. It was like she understood every bit of angst there was at that time in my life. Bridget has grown up, and so (allegedly) have I, and I still love her. Why? Because she […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding, The Mama ·
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I wonder if Laura Bush has read this book…

August 22, 2016 by Lynn Leave a Comment

Lots of people (do I have to tm Donald Trump?) around here have been reading Curtis Sittenfeld lately. I’ve seen the Pride & Prejudice remake reviews, but that wasn’t available on my library’s website, so I downloaded American Wife instead. In my head – and most likely because of the cover – I thought it would be about a Jackie Kennedy-esque first lady, but instead, it became increasingly clear that it’s a thinly veiled tale of First Lady Laura Bush. American Wife is the story […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, Political Fiction, romance, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, Political Fiction, romance, The Mama ·
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