I’m 87% sure that I read this book once before, but it doesn’t appear as though I reviewed it so I’m counting it. Also? There are approximately eleventy billion books out there called “Heat Wave”. It took me like, five pages on the Amazon search to find this. I feel like we can come up with a more unique title, kids. Kat Vargas is a private investigator living in California by way of Hawaii. She’s tiny, tough, and she’s built a wall around her heart […]
Buy a cookbook, people. It’s not that hard.
I confessed earlier that I’m not a fan of the Shopaholic books, but I read Can You Keep a Secret? and realized that it wasn’t so bad, so I thought I’d give Kinsella another shot, and picked up The Undomestic Goddess from a pile at my sister’s. And then I remembered why I didn’t really like her. Samantha Sweeting is a high powered London attorney who makes a big mistake at work on the eve of her partnership. The mistake is gigantic – like, millions […]
If you can’t keep a secret, come sit by me…
I confess I’m not a fan of the Shopaholic books. I tried one and I just couldn’t get in to it. I don’t mind books with heroines who are a little bit of a mess – I actually quite enjoy them because it reminds me that it’s okay that I’m a little bit of a mess – but there was just something about the Shopaholic books that I just couldn’t deal with. So I’ve always resisted Sophia Kinsella’s other books, thinking that they would be […]
Finally a Philippa Gregory book I actually enjoyed
Young Jewish girl Hannah Verde flees the Inquisition in Spain with her father after her mother is burned for heresy. They travel through Europe to England, calling themselves “Green” and making a new life for themselves as loyal Christians. Hannah´s father has a printing press and soon his skilled work comes to the attention of scholars like John Dee. While John Dee is visiting their print shop with his patron, Lord Robert Dudley, Hannah has one of her visions, seeing an angel over their shoulder. […]
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