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A meh from La Nora

Hideaway by Nora Roberts

February 10, 2021 by The Mama Leave a Comment

Sometimes, when I think I’m busy, I think about Nora Roberts, and I realize that there is no way I can possibly be as busy as she is. This woman has written approximately eleventy billions books, and Hideaway is her latest. Normally, I like Nora’s stand-alone novels. Yes, they’re predictable in that Nora-esque way, but they’re like watching an episode of Law and Order. You know the characters, you know pretty much what’s going to happen, the details don’t exactly matter because the basic framework […]

Big disappointment

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner

January 20, 2021 by The Mama 1 Comment

It’s been awhile since I’ve read a Jennifer Weiner book, and I remember liking her. So when I saw Big Summer available online at the library, I snapped it up without reading the blurb. It was a quick enough read – I probably spent a few hours over the course of a couple of nights and a lunch break – but I didn’t love it, and it didn’t really feel like a Jennifer Weiner book. So much so that I stopped reading and went back […]

I’m a bit surprised Rex is still alive. What’s the lifespan on a hamster?

Fortune and Glory (Tantalizing Twenty-Seven) by Janet Evanovitch

January 18, 2021 by The Mama 4 Comments

(I’m back. I failed miserably at CBR12. My last review was about a week before, you know, The Great Quarantine. At first I thought it would be great, that I would have all kinds of spare time to read and write reviews and that would be the year that I really crushed it. Except no, cause that’s not how life works when you have four teenagers and a puppy in your house. All the time. And they never leave. And you can never leave. And […]

It’s tough to pull off a mass-puking scene in a romance novel, but apparently not impossible

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

March 10, 2020 by The Mama 1 Comment

My first introduction to Christina Lauren was Beautiful Bastard, a tome that I definitely did not love, and one that my fellow Cannonballers appear to also not love. But, I’m a sucker for an easy read, and The Unhoneymooners came pretty highly recommended, so I thought I’d give the duo another shot. And it was fine. In fact, it was pretty good. It’s not high literature, but sometimes you just want a goofy enemies to lovers hate romance with some pretty quality bow chica wow […]

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Under Currents: A Novel by Nora Roberts

February 6, 2020 by The Mama 1 Comment

First review of the year! I started out so strong last year, and then petered out in February. (February is the longest month of the year, I swear.) So here’s hoping I can keep up this year! Somehow I missed this stand alone Roberts, although I just looked it up and it only came out last summer, so I’m not sure how my library has literally 50 e-copies available. (And here’s where I can go down the rabbit hole of publishing and libraries and e-books and […]

wicherwill on What It Means to SurviveDefinitely want to check this out!
Emmalita on “Put a whole fuckn’ bulb of garlic in—or fuckn’ don’t. Whatever Trevor”I’ve been keeping an eye out for this one. I enjoy his videos and have listened to a couple of his interviews.
ElCicco on “Put a whole fuckn’ bulb of garlic in—or fuckn’ don’t. Whatever Trevor”We love Nat’s YouTube channel! I also like to call people “champion” now. I didn’t know he had a book out, so this is great...
wicherwill on Really Hoping The Food is as Good as it Looksoooh---there's a vegan Korean restaurant in NYC that we used to go to all the time, but it wasn't really what you'd call innovative Korean...
wicherwill on The worst part about reading something day 1 is that you have the wait the longest possible length of time to read the next book…hmm I thought I replied but--I once just did a comment that had many lines of dashes like so - - - - - -...

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