I’ve had I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids (2013) on my to-read list for quite a while. But with so many other books to read, I never got around to it. That is, until I finally picked up the audio version and started listening on my, lately, significantly increased drive time. The subject of this memoir by stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman is pretty obvious from the title. Kirkman shortly describes her life, from right after college, deciding to […]
One of my favorite duos in literature
Career of Evil (2015) is Galbraith/J.K. Rowling’s third novel following private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant-cum-partner, Robin Ellacott. I discovered this series through my book club when we read The Cuckoo’s Calling. I followed it up by reading The Silkworm on my own. Each book has a self-contained, engaging, and complex murder mystery. The connection between all three books is the relationship between Cormoran and Robin. Robin starts working for Cormoran in the first book, she becomes more indispensable to him in the second, and they […]
Not the brightest point in American history
I know Isabel Allende from Daughter of Fortune and Zorro, so when I saw The Japanese Lover (2015) at Costco, I was immediately interested. Alma Belasco is a young, privileged, Jewish girl in Poland. As WWII ramps up to its destructive beginnings, Alma’s family sends her to her rich uncle in San Francisco, where she is safe, but alone, lonely and miserable. Her two companions become her cousin, Nick, and the Japanese-American son of the family’s gardener, Ichimei Fukuda. Alma and Ichi soon become inseparable. After the bombing […]
Poppy finds a husband–despite herself
I’ve had to drive around the city much more lately, and to take away some of the boredom, I picked up some books on tape. Initially I didn’t have many options, so I grabbed I’ve Got Your Number (2012) by Sophie Kinsella. I’d never read Kinsella before and wasn’t sure what to expect. Overall, I guess I was entertained, but my thoughts on this book went back and forth like crazy as I worked my way through. At first it was kind of funny, then I […]
Only Some Will Survive
I found The Lifeboat (2012) by Charlotte Rogan when I stumbled on (or Facebook shoved in my face) the Huffington Post’s list of 21 Books From the Last Five Years That Every Woman Should Read. Of the eight books I’d already read on that list, I’d really liked seven of them, so it inspired me to try out some more. After surviving 21 days in an overcrowded lifeboat lost at sea, Grace Winter is on trial for murder. Recently married into wealth and almost as quickly widowed, […]
He’s romantic for a stalker
I’ve read Lisa Kleypas before, but I had not ventured into her contemporary romance novels before. I’m a fan of contemporary and it’s never too late to start, so I began with Brown-Eyed Girl (2015). This was a quick, generally fun read, but nothing grabbed me. Ultimately, it was pretty forgettable. Avery Crosslin is a wedding planner who started a business with her half-sister Sofia. She meets Joe Travis, a friend of the groom, at a wedding she’s planning. He is very rich, very sexy, and […]
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