I downloaded First Lady from the library and it wasn’t quite what I expected, but I suppose it was okay. Very middle-of-the-road, fairly predictable, but relatively serviceable. Cornelia “Nealy” Case is the defacto First Lady to the first bachelor president the United States has had in years. After taking a month to grieve after her husband – the president – was killed (and I can’t remember if he was assassinated or just died of…something), Nealy’s father (the party chairman) volunteered her to stay on as […]
“Because some days, the damn dress just won’t zip…”
Dumplin’ showed up in a few reviews a few weeks ago and it sounded like something right up my alley, so when it appeared on my library’s digital download site, I snapped it up and read it in about two or three days. You guys. It’s fantastic. In Clover City, Texas, the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant is just about the biggest thing in town. Willowdean’s mom, a former Miss Teen Blue Bonnet, is the head of the pageant, and she prides herself on being […]
“It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people…”
Both JB and Boss read The Lifeboat and I think that they both liked it more than I did, although I just asked Boss and he said after having been away from it for awhile, he felt it was fine but kind of flat. JB said it was a fascinating look at human behavior, and I suppose he’s right, but it just didn’t set me on fire the way I think it did him. I think that this is one of those books that you […]
“There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old…”
Celia, Sally, Bree, and April meet their freshman year at Smith College, and the four of them couldn’t be more different. Celia is our narrator, a lapsed Catholic who had the foresight to smuggle a bottle of vodka in to her suitcase. Sally is recovering from the loss of her mother just months before, and unsure she is willing – or able – to make friends and enjoy college. Bree has arrived with a diamond ring on her finger and the next fifty years of […]