Cannonball Read 18

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The Beachiest of Reads

The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand

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Very soon to be a series on Netflix starring Nicole Kidman. Suddenly I have the urge to recite the AMC commercial monologue- We come to this place for magic… somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this… They could be talking about the lovely island of Nantucket, where Celeste Otis and Benji Winbury are set to be married this weekend. The groom’s mother has arranged a lavish ceremony on the family’s estate. Its full steam ahead on the wedding of the summer until the […]

There once was a girl from Nantucket

A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand

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This was my first Elin Hilderbrand novel and I’m not sure I’m sold on reading more of her (I’m not a hard no but I’m not a hard yes either). Part of that was expectations- with a name like The Summer Affair, I was expecting a fun juicy summer romance. Full warning to anyone who hasn’t read this (or who hasn’t read Hilderbrand- I suspect if you have you might have other expectations already) that this book is not that. The titular affair is almost […]

If nantucket had a dick, I’d suck it.

Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand

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Thanks to the Noisehole podcast for letting me appropriate that joke for the review title (it initially referred to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and California, obviously), but man does Elin Hilderbrand like Nantucket a lot, and cooking apparently, based on my extensive knowledge of her writing (ok, maybe this was only my second of her books, but it’s hammered through on both). I bought this when at goodwill and found the motherlode of good-enough expendable books, and having read Here’s to Us, I figured […]

Not in my Wheelhouse. Or beach house for that matter

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Second bingo entry for “Not in my wheelhouse,” which is a rough category for me as I really will read pretty much anything.  The best I could come up with is that I tend not to read books like this – I don’t want to call them women’s books because a) reductive, b) there’s tons of books by/for women that aren’t like this, and c) saying I don’t read books like this and then calling them women’s books smacks of “I’m not like other girls” […]

Everyone Loves Gossip…Until It’s About Them #truth

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Set on the idyllic Nantucket island, The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand follows two best friends Madeline and Grace and their families.  From afar, their friendship, their children, their husbands and their talents (Madeline is an author and Grace is a gardener/cook/homemaker extraordinaire) are completely enviable by all around them.  However,  Madeline is having difficulty starting her new book, the advance is already spent and yet she’s completely blocked.  Luckily, she has a wonderful supportive husband who agrees with her that getting a “room of one’s […]



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