Give yourself a treat and listen to this book! The reader, Shvorne Marks, makes you hang on every word-the funny, the silly, the sad and the true. Queenie is a 25 year old Jamaican-Brit who is careening wildly through her life, making one bad decision after another. Her friends, the Corgis, act like a Greek […]
A modern Indian Canadian woman bows to her beloved grandmother’s desire to play matchmaker for her, moving in the direction of an arranged marriage, with disastrous results. Sonya Lalli excels in sharing the experience of being a 20 – 30 something Canadian of Indian extraction coping with both traditional and modern pressures all at once. […]
Here’s a sexy romance with a twist! The heroine is on the autism spectrum and the author is too; in fact, she was diagnosed just before she started writing. Ms. Hoang rewrites Pretty Woman as Pretty Man: A woman hires an escort — and falls in love. Stella is an econometrician who predicts customer behavior […]
Abbi Waxman is great at conveying grief and confusion while also being really funny. Her main character, Lilian, lost her husband suddenly and, after 3 years, is just getting her feet under her. She’s taking a gardening class to prep for a big illustration job at work, not to heal. But of course gardening leads […]
I love Sophie Kinsella’s books because they always make me laugh out loud. Her characters are fun and have a lot of heart. They always manage to get themselves into sticky situations and then make their way out of them with a happy ending for all at the end of the book. My Not So […]
I bought the first book in this series, Size 12 is Not Fat, a long time ago—the clever title caught my eye and it seemed like it would be a cute read. Meg Cabot has written some wonderful youth and teen novels, so I figured her fiction would be equally as fun. I got a few […]
I have found Jen Lancaster’s fiction hit or miss—I either really love it, or really hate it. Twisted Sisters is the only one that I started out hating and by the end, actually kind of enjoyed. It took me a really long time to get into this book…. And I do mean REALLY LONG, as […]
