2/7/2006
A catchy (and true) title may have attracted me to the book, but Cabot's storytelling ability kept me reading.
The first in a (planned) mystery series starring former tween pop star Heather Wells, “Size 12 is Not Fat” is a quick & entertaining read. After some serious downgrading in her circumstances (she walked in on her fiance and another performer, um, performing; her mother/agent ran away with all...
1/30/2006
Anne Gracie is an author to take note of.
Mysterious pasts full of family secrets, charming writing, and confusion abound in Anne Gracie's The Perfect Rake. This warm love story is filled with all the requisite characters-- an evil guardian, a rogue worth reforming, a missing and duplicitous fiance, diamonds of the first water, and a...
1/7/2006
A different perspective, and a classic tale has a whole new meaning
What exactly is wicked? Does a person become wicked? Do their life experiences make them such or are they born with the trait? This ongoing debate not only has far reaching sociological implications, in Gregory Maguire's "Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West", it also makes...
12/14/2005
A winner
The Single Vampire
11/15/2005
Nora Roberts' new hardcover, Blue Smoke.
I am, unashamedly, a huge fan of Nora Roberts' writings. I've fallen in love with her characters, her comedic sense of timing, her realistic and often witty dialogue. Fortunately, her newest book Blue Smoke, did not disappoint. Always an avid reader with a huge TBR pile, I still somehow manage...
10/15/2005
A Commonplace Book
Willard R. Espy's The Word's Gotten Out is somewhat hard to categorize. The subtitle is A Commonplace Book, which is a whole genre of book I haven't previously been aware of. The genre, as a whole, includes a wide variety of books that are meant to be a storage-like facility for a person's...
9/29/2005
What is happiness?
What is happiness?For Sally Farber, the main character of Lisa Grunwald's lyrically written and impressively thorough new novel, Whatever Makes You Happy, the search includes cleaning out her mother's apartment, considering an affair with an artist, sending her two children away to summer camp for...
9/7/2005
The latest in P.C. Cast's Goddess Series, and a real surprise to me
Ordinarily, I'm put off by books that seem too far fetched ? I find them hard to relate to. So when a reader whose opinion I trust recommended these books about contemporary women and how they get caught up in ancient myths, I reluctantly added them to my TBR pile. But as I started to read...
9/7/2005
Full of moments both absurd and touching
Been in a backlist sort of mood lately, and found some treasures along the way. Jennifer Crusie is one of my new favorite writers. If you've read some of her later novels (Bet Me, Faking It) and enjoyed them as much as I did, you'll be happy to know that her older novels are just as good....
8/19/2005
Laugh-out loud funny in parts, and complete with British-English to American-English dictionary, Angus, Thongs, & Full-Frontal Snogging definitely goes in the keep pile
I am by no means a book snob: if it's good, I'll read it. I don't discriminate based on what books are 'supposed' to be. Science fiction, while not generally my thing, has turned out more than one keeper. I treasure my copies of certain children's stories and I don't see why, although I am no...
