I’ve seen Brain on Fire a few times at the bookstore, and it was the subtitle that kept catching my eye – “My Month of Madness” – and so when I found it on sale, I picked it up. I thought I would be getting a book about a Nellie Bly-style reporter who feigns mental illness to write an expose on our country’s health care system. Instead, I got a terrifying account of what happens when a young woman can’t get the right diagnosis, and […]
How can moving dead bodies be dull? And yet…here we are.
I downloaded Body Movers as an audio book to keep me company on my commute because sometimes I think that all I do is drive, and there’s only so much NPR I can listen to during election season without wanting to tear my hair out. Body Movers seemed like it would be a darkly funny little diversion but it was… not. It was actually almost sort of painfully dull. Carlotta Wren works in the couture department of Neiman Marcus in the Atlanta mall. Her younger […]
This is the review where I use the A word a lot. And d-bag. I use that a lot, too.
This. Freaking. Book. So I discovered Susan Elizabeth Phillips quite by accident, and Glitter Baby is now the go to reference between Boss and me whenever he feels the need to make fun of what I’m reading, and even though I point out again and again that my trashy romance novels are high literature compared to some of his trashy celebrity biographies, he still continues to make fun of me and I let him because he pays me. And sometimes he buys me diet Coke. […]
Pretty sure Abigail Bartlet wouldn’t have put up with Mat with one T
I downloaded First Lady from the library and it wasn’t quite what I expected, but I suppose it was okay. Very middle-of-the-road, fairly predictable, but relatively serviceable. Cornelia “Nealy” Case is the defacto First Lady to the first bachelor president the United States has had in years. After taking a month to grieve after her husband – the president – was killed (and I can’t remember if he was assassinated or just died of…something), Nealy’s father (the party chairman) volunteered her to stay on as […]
“Because some days, the damn dress just won’t zip…”
Dumplin’ showed up in a few reviews a few weeks ago and it sounded like something right up my alley, so when it appeared on my library’s digital download site, I snapped it up and read it in about two or three days. You guys. It’s fantastic. In Clover City, Texas, the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant is just about the biggest thing in town. Willowdean’s mom, a former Miss Teen Blue Bonnet, is the head of the pageant, and she prides herself on being […]
“It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people…”
Both JB and Boss read The Lifeboat and I think that they both liked it more than I did, although I just asked Boss and he said after having been away from it for awhile, he felt it was fine but kind of flat. JB said it was a fascinating look at human behavior, and I suppose he’s right, but it just didn’t set me on fire the way I think it did him. I think that this is one of those books that you […]
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