Thank you, Goodreads. I never would have heard about this book without your recommendation, and I likely never would have read it without winning it through one of your giveaways. So Goodreads is totally responsible for all the snorting laughter that resulted from my reading this book. “Friends should be like a good bra, lifting you up. Bad friends are like sports bras. They can do wonders when you go out dancing or during high-energy times, but one a day-to-day basis they really just smush […]
You don’t have to be weird to enjoy this one (but it helps)
Hey, 10 more books this year and I’ll hit a quintuple cannonball! Considering I have about half of the rest of the days this year off from work — I think it’s doable. “The internet is amazing because it connects us with one another. But it’s also horrific because . . . it connects us with one another.” I remember seeing Felicia Day in Dr. Horrible, but I thought she was the same chick who played Saffron in Firefly (she’s not — that’s Christina Hendricks), so I was only slightly […]
To Marry a Hero
And following the feel-good goodness of Willowdean and Dumplin’, I read The Aviator’s Wife, and spent the whole book wanting to strangle the main character. Read on! “Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it’s far more cruel. You miss more, because you’ve known more.” The Aviator’s Wife is Melanie Benjamin’s fictionalization of the life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh and the mother of the poor Lindbergh baby, who was kidnapped and murdered at 20 months old. I’m not sure […]
Cute as Pie
Ah, this book was so cute. I loved the main character, and the author absolutely nailed the Texas atmosphere: the accents, the way people act — dead on. “I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won’t zip.” Willowdean Dickson has always been on the heavy side, but she’s fine with it. She’s happy to wear a bikini to the pool, she feels good in her own skin, and she […]