I sort of gave up on Stephanie Plum a few books ago. I think I was in the middle of something else when the latest book came out and Mom had to get her copy back to the library before I could read it, and besides, Mom said it was kind of “meh”, so I just never really pursued it. But recently Mom read the latest installment and said Janet’s got her groove back, so while I’m waiting for the digital copy to become available, […]
Mama was right: you DO have to kiss a lot of frogs
I’m not sure quite how to classify You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs. It reads like a memoir but I think it might be fiction. Either way, it’s an interesting look at dating adventures. The novel opens with our narrator Karrie Klein attending yet another bridal shower for yet another friend, enduring the questions about when it will be her turn to get married. She doesn’t normally worry about her perpetually single status, but she’s 45, her acting prospects are drying up, her […]
Sing me a lullaby
I follow John Green on Facebook and a few months ago, he posted about Sarah Dessen’s new novel (the name of which escapes me at the moment), and I figured that since I harbor a) a secret love for YA fiction and b) a secret love for John Green, I’d give her a whirl and downloaded This Lullaby, which was what was available from Overdrive. And it was… okay, I guess? The story follows eighteen year old Remy during that magical time between high school […]
This book would make V.C. Andrews blush…
I’m woefully behind in my reviews, and so I’ve had some time and space apart from this novel, and I have to tell you, I still don’t know what to think. I can’t tell if I loved it for all of its gothic-ness, or I hated it for all of its horrible characters. So I’m giving it three stars, because that feels like a solidly middle-of-the-pack recommendation, but if you pick this up, know going in to it that you might get to the end […]
This book should be called DUNCE Road
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 […]
“I didn’t need to die for him to kill me.”
It wasn’t until I went to Amazon to read some reviews of This Is How It Ends that I realized that the entire book takes place over 54 minutes. That’s it. Just 54 minutes of heart-racing adrenaline, tears, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, terror, and laughter. At 10 am on a sunny morning in January, the principal of Opportunity High School in Opportunity, Alabama, finishes her beginning of the semester speech. It’s the same speech each year, and so a senior named Tomas and his friend […]
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