Lots of people (do I have to tm Donald Trump?) around here have been reading Curtis Sittenfeld lately. I’ve seen the Pride & Prejudice remake reviews, but that wasn’t available on my library’s website, so I downloaded American Wife instead. In my head – and most likely because of the cover – I thought it would be about a Jackie Kennedy-esque first lady, but instead, it became increasingly clear that it’s a thinly veiled tale of First Lady Laura Bush. American Wife is the story […]
Well, this disease sounds terrifying…
I’ve seen Brain on Fire a few times at the bookstore, and it was the subtitle that kept catching my eye – “My Month of Madness” – and so when I found it on sale, I picked it up. I thought I would be getting a book about a Nellie Bly-style reporter who feigns mental illness to write an expose on our country’s health care system. Instead, I got a terrifying account of what happens when a young woman can’t get the right diagnosis, and […]
How can moving dead bodies be dull? And yet…here we are.
I downloaded Body Movers as an audio book to keep me company on my commute because sometimes I think that all I do is drive, and there’s only so much NPR I can listen to during election season without wanting to tear my hair out. Body Movers seemed like it would be a darkly funny little diversion but it was… not. It was actually almost sort of painfully dull. Carlotta Wren works in the couture department of Neiman Marcus in the Atlanta mall. Her younger […]
This is the review where I use the A word a lot. And d-bag. I use that a lot, too.
This. Freaking. Book. So I discovered Susan Elizabeth Phillips quite by accident, and Glitter Baby is now the go to reference between Boss and me whenever he feels the need to make fun of what I’m reading, and even though I point out again and again that my trashy romance novels are high literature compared to some of his trashy celebrity biographies, he still continues to make fun of me and I let him because he pays me. And sometimes he buys me diet Coke. […]