Goodnight Bookworms, I don’t have kids, but I love children’s books. Remember that whole Bookish Baby Shower my book club put together for one of our members? It was an incredible stroke of luck that “C” didn’t receive a single double copy of a book for her baby girl’s library, especially since I’ve known people… Read more »
Category: Chick Lit
Real Happy Family by Caeli Wolfson Widger (A TLC Book Tour)
Ciao Bookworms, I feel like I should be greeting you with air kisses today, because we’re going to Hollywood! Actually, we’re going more to the seedy underbelly of show business, but I’m getting ahead of myself. I was contacted by TLC Book Tours to take part in the tour for Caeli Wolfson Widger’s new novel, Real Happy… Read more »
The Peach Keeper By Sarah Addison Allen
How Y’all Doing, Bookworms? I have really been digging some Southern Fried Fiction lately! I recently finished Sarah Addison Allen’s The Peach Keeper, and now I want to talk about it. (Novel concept, right? I should probably write a book blog! Oh wait…) Willa Jackson lives in Walls of Water, North Carolina. Her family were… Read more »
Lost and Found by Chris Van Hakes
Salutations Bookworms, Most of the time when I pick up a book, the author is a faceless figure to me. I’m rarely up to speed with the goings on of the literary community, and I pick up a lot of books by authors who are new to me. Half the time I don’t even know… Read more »
Strange Bedpersons by Jennifer Crusie: Every Bit as Saucy as it Sounds
Happy Monday Bookworms! I can hear you groaning at my greeting. I know, Mondays suck. They don’t suck if you can win prizes though, which you totally CAN right now from a crap ton of literary blogs. You’ve got until Wednesday to enter- get on with it! (Here. Click it. You’ll thank me.) Now that… Read more »
Getting Rid of Bradley (Because He Totally Sucks)
Howdy Bookworms, Sometimes you just need a break, you know? I’ve been reading a lot of dystopias and apocalyptic fiction lately, and I decided I needed a goofy little romance. I read Jennifer Crusie’s novel Bet Me a while back, and enjoyed it so much I decided to buy a bundle o’ Jennifer Crusie on the Kindle… Read more »
Between You and Me… Was Not My Favorite.
Hey Bookworms, It’s Monday, and that stinks. Weekends > Weekdays. That’s just math right there. We’re not here to talk about math, though. We are here to talk about BOOKS! I recently finished reading Between You and Me by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. This was the duo that brought us The Nanny Diaries, which I enjoyed, so I… Read more »
Hot Temps and Hot Tempers: Top Ten Tuesday Beach Reads
Howdy Bookworms! I hope life has been treating you well. Today is Tuesday which means it’s time to make lists! Yaaaaaay! This week’s topic via The Broke and The Bookish is Top Ten Beach reads! It sounds like an easy topic, but I’m kind of at a loss. The thing about Illinois is that it’s… Read more »
I'll See Your Romance Novel and Raise You a Chicken Marsala (Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie)
Woah! It’s Monday! Ain’t that a kick in the teeth? It is for me, because I had last week off to staycation. It should come as no surprise that I spent many of my gloriously unencumbered hours devouring books. Oh yes. And visiting my nephew. He’s brand new and cuter than a son of a… Read more »
I’ll See Your Romance Novel and Raise You a Chicken Marsala (Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie)
Woah! It’s Monday! Ain’t that a kick in the teeth? It is for me, because I had last week off to staycation. It should come as no surprise that I spent many of my gloriously unencumbered hours devouring books. Oh yes. And visiting my nephew. He’s brand new and cuter than a son of a… Read more »