I’m a sucker for a good YA novel. I’m an even bigger sucker for a good YA novel where there is tragic death or dismemberment or some sort of horrible disease or a dead boyfriend. I cut my teenage teeth on Cynthia Voigt. Izzy, Willy-Nilly had me convinced that if I ever got in the car with someone who had had even one beer, I’d lose my leg, too,or even worse. And I wanted If I Stay to be good. I really, really did. But […]
Socks Mate For Life…
This book. Oh, this lovely, quiet, little book that wormed its way in to my heart and left me weeping. Peggy Cort is the librarian of a small Cape Cod tourist town in the 1950s. She’s the very definition of a spinster in her brown tweed and sensible shoes. She’s lonely, weary with it, resigned to it, defined by it. “Socks mate for life,” she says sadly, and in those words, the reader understands perfectly how desperately Peggy wants to be loved. And then one […]
Good old Nora…
Sometimes, I need something quick that I can read on my tablet, something easy that I can pick up and put down (or fall asleep to), something that doesn’t make me think. But I have anxiety over buying a book I can’t flip through, so most of the time I resort to what’s on my library’s website. Which, honestly, isn’t a whole lot. But I know that Nora Roberts is always good for a good time, so I found myself downloading Black Hills the other […]
Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy.
Half Cannonball! Somehow, I escaped high school without ever having read The Catcher in the Rye. I’m not sure how, since it feels like we read every other book in the world. Maybe the nuns weren’t crazy about old Holden Caulfield. And strangely, while I have always been aware of Holden, I never really knew his story. So I embarked on what is arguably Salinger’s best known, and most divisive, work without having any idea what to expect. The novel opens just before Christmas, with […]
I wouldn’t mind taking my breathing room in Tuscany…
Years ago, I read a book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips called Glitter Baby. It was chick lit, but it wasn’t half bad. Boss, who purports to be a book snob but secretly devours celebrity biographies and the much jucier autobiographies, made fun of it, and now Glitter Baby is office shorthand for trashy romance novels. So when I was looking for something light (and free on the library’s website), I found Breathing Room, and figured that I couldn’t go wrong with another Phillips. Dr. Isabel […]
Mr. Maybe You Should Skip This One
I think the first Jane Green book I read was Family Pictures, and it was fantastic, so I had pretty high hopes for Mr. Maybe, but unfortunately, it fell flat for me. Libby is a twenty-something single woman living in London. She works in PR, handling mainly local B-list celebrities, including the local morning news personality Amanda. She has a best friend, Jules, who is married to an awesome guy named Jamie, and a relatively good circle of friends. But the one thing she doesn’t […]
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