It’s tough to write about suicide and not glamorize it or, alternately, vehemently condemn it. Most of the time, suicidal characters have Big Trauma in their lives, and so, to some extent, their desire to end their lives is understandable, at least from a literary point of view. Or on the other side of the coin, suicide is used as a tool to show how selfish a character is, to show the destruction left behind, and the character is vilified. But in A Long Way […]
A Jennifer Crusie Cruise
I went on a Jennifer Crusie binge a few weekends ago. I wanted it to be a Gilmore Girls binge, but instead, my kid wanted to have a Friends binge, and since I already know that Ross is going to pick Rachel over the bald girl who is married to Ben Stiller in real life, I needed something I could read even though the tv was on. Hence, Jennifer Cruise. Plus, she was a free download from the library. And it was cold out. So […]
Nothing like waiting four months to post my first review…
I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m such a procrastinator. Anyway, I have at least a dozen reviews, so maybe by September I’ll put up another one. Me: Hey, can I borrow this? JB: Sure. Me: How was it? JB: I dunno. I never read it. This from the man who reads everything. That should have been my first warning. From Nick Hornby comes what all the fancy newspapers called “a page turner” (Washington Times) and “fearless” (San Francisco Chronicle), but what I call […]
Love and eggs are best when they’re fresh
CANNONBALL!!! The City Thieves keeps turning up in my life. JB and I both have two copies of it, I think. Either that, or they are moving around our respective houses on their own. Which is creepy if you think about it. So after literally tripping over it for a few months, I finally picked it up and gave it a whirl. Told in first person as a story to the narrator’s grandson, The City Thieves is the story of Lev Beniov, a young Russian […]
This is the Great American Novel
I’m not a comics girl. I’ve never gotten the appeal of graphic novels. I don’t watch Jessica Jones or Supergirl, the only Iron Man I’ve seen is the third one and that was only because my kid made me, and I’ve never seen a Batman movie, although I do own Wonder Woman Underoos. Also, apparently there are two different comic universes and you can’t cross characters, which is something I just recently discovered, much to the chagrin of my friends, but I still don’t know […]
Not really over the moon about this one
I’m totally cheating on this one, and taking the synopsis from Amazon. What can I say? I can’t quite remember the story. June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found… Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself […]