My mom is an avid Nora Roberts fan. I used to be as well, but in recent years I’ve become less avid, but it’s hard to resist a shiny new hardcover from the library, so when Mom finished up her copy of The Liar a week before it was due, I snagged it. The book opens with Shelby, a young widow with a three year old daughter, coming off the news of her husband’s tragic death in a sailing accident. Richard was an investor of […]
Cinderella should have skipped this ball…
Normally, I like Jennifer Crusie. She can be counted on for some mad-cap adventures, a hot guy or two, and a girl who is kind of a mess but fiercely independent. She’s chick lit, but she’s usually pretty good chick lit. Perfect for an audio book. But The Cinderella Deal left me feeling pretty disenchanted. Daisy Flattery is a free spirited unemployed artist, struggling to make ends meet and struggling to make her paintings speak. Her apartment is a riot of color, and she has […]
How come my home renovation never goes this smoothly?
Mary Kay Andrews is one of those authors who I’ve read a couple of times and enjoyed in a breezy, beach book kind of way. I liked Savannah Blues and Savannah Breeze, but I’m left feeling a little ambivalent about The Fixer-Upper. Perhaps it’s because I listened to it as an audio book and didn’t much care for the reader, or perhaps it was just too long. Either way, it filled the gaps in my time during my commute and during my walks, but I […]
The Road Less Bleak
One of my biggest fears is surviving an end-of-the-world catastrophe. It was recently pointed out to me that I’m worrying needlessly, that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, it’s unlikely I’d survive past the first wave. Probably that’s an accurate statement. I don’t do well without air conditioning or diet Coke. But if I did survive, I suppose it wouldn’t be so bad if I got to live at the airport with Hig and Bangley. Mostly because while Bangley scares the ever-loving daylights out […]
The Boy Isn’t Worth the Trouble
I finished The Boy about a month or so ago, and I’ve been sitting on my review because I’m not sure what to say. Emma Donoghue (Room) said she “read it one go” and that it was “brutally honest…about the price of motherhood”. And while I haven’t read Room, lots of Cannonballers have – she’s quite a favorite around here – but her recommending this book as highly as she did honestly kind of puts me off reading it. Anna is a single mom, raising […]
Peaches are really just hairy nectarines…
I downloaded this from the local library the other day so I would have something to listen to while I walked in the evenings. (Even though it feels like it’s 90 degrees already and it’s only April. What am I going to do when it’s August???) Anyway, I needed something sort of fluffy and chick lit-esque that I could sort of half listen to while I huffed and puffed my way through the soup that is known as Florida air and I thought this would […]
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