Because I teach the same books each year (sometimes twice a year because I teach different courses with some books that intermingle between the two), I write the same reviews for those books each year for CBR. I don’t feel like writing reviews for the same books that I read over and over again, I present to you a literary clip show. Kick back, relax and experience rehashed posts from the past! I promise I have other reviews to finish but here’s what I’ve been […]
They Could Break the Ice by Talking About What He Liked in Bed???
Deacon Thorpe, the first celebrity television bad boy chef is dead. Surviving him is his first wife Laurel (a social worker) and their son Hayes…and his second wife (Oscar winning movie star) Belinda and their adopted daughter Angie…oh and his third wife Scarlett (failed photographer and successful anorexic) and their young daughter (a little girl whose name I can’t remember). His last request is that all three women and all of his children gather together in their summer home American Dream on Nantucket to spread […]
Everyone Loves Gossip…Until It’s About Them #truth
Set on the idyllic Nantucket island, The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand follows two best friends Madeline and Grace and their families. From afar, their friendship, their children, their husbands and their talents (Madeline is an author and Grace is a gardener/cook/homemaker extraordinaire) are completely enviable by all around them. However, Madeline is having difficulty starting her new book, the advance is already spent and yet she’s completely blocked. Luckily, she has a wonderful supportive husband who agrees with her that getting a “room of one’s […]
Everyone’s Life Looks Great on Instagram
Autumn likes to like stuff on the Internet (who doesn’t?)…and she soon becomes obsessed with one particular family–the McMullins. She likes them for several reasons: 1. Daphne McMullin is the perfect mother. 2. The McMullins in general, are the perfect family and 3. Daphne McMullin adopted Autumn’s baby girl at birth in a closed adoption. Autumn “stays in” her daughter’s life by following Daphne on social media as a lurker. She memorizes everything about them and is just absolutely thrilled that a woman like Daphne […]