Book Reviews and a Little More…
Summer Sisters wasn’t bad, but I feel like it could have been better. Vix and Caitlin have a relationship that is simple and complicated all at once. Vix just falls into it, really. Caitlin decides she likes her, and that’s all it takes. Because Caitlin always gets what she wants. She’s the wild child, Vix is her shadow. The book spends a lot of time
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I rarely read short story collections, but I tore through this one, devouring a story or two each night before I’d sleep. There is a sharpness to Ellis’s stories — they are very New York, but very Proper Southern Lady at the same time, which is exactly how I imagine Helen Ellis to be. An imagining that has turned out to be pretty accurate, if
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Book #37 was Goodnight Nobody , by Jennifer Weiner. I have mixed feelings about this book. Story-wise, it wasn’t bad. However… I know Jennifer Weiner’s books are supposed to be “fat girl does good” sort of things, but I got sooooooo tired of the references to her weight. I felt like every page had some reference to her thighs being larger than her husband’s, or
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Book #5 was The Big Love, by Sarah Dunn. I was pleased with this book. I really liked the author’s conversational tone, and I could understand exactly why she thought the things she did, sometimes. And I even wanted to scream at her at times and cheer for her at others, much like her friends did. It was a quick read (I essentially read it
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