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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Family Vacations: Are They Ever Fun?

September 5, 2014 by ModernLove Leave a Comment

This is another one of the books I picked up to take on vacation. I mean, while on vacation with ones family, what better to read about than…a family on vacation? Thankfully, mine doesn’t have nearly as many issues as the Post family does. Franny and Jim are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary, while trying to recover from Jim’s affair with a much younger woman. Not only might it cost him his marriage, but it cost him his job. Sylvia has just graduated high school […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Emma Straub, The Vacationers

ModernLove's CBR6 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Emma Straub, The Vacationers ·
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It wasn’t a horror novel like I thought, but a family vacation can be very scary.

August 28, 2014 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

I had no idea who Emma Straub was until I picked this off of the new release table at the library last week. I assumed that maybe she was Peter Straub’s daughter, and thought I was getting myself a fun horror story for the end of the summer. Well. I don’t know if she is actually related to Peter. Maybe? And this was actually a pretty fun book. I’d compare her writing toJonathan Tropper — telling a difficult story with humor and wit. And while I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Emma Straub, Jonathan Tropper, Peter Straub, Scootsa1000, The Vacationers

scootsa1000's CBR6 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Emma Straub, Jonathan Tropper, Peter Straub, Scootsa1000, The Vacationers ·
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