Reading for the fun of it!
Reviews of popular fiction that I've read and enjoyed recently, along with read-alikes and suggestions for additional titles like-minded readers might enjoy.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
A Good Year for the Roses by Gil McNeil
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand
Dabney Kimball Beech lives and breathes
Nantucket. With the exception of going to Harvard, she's pretty much
spent her whole life there, refusing to move to Thailand with her
childhood love, Clen, after college. She raised their daughter,
Agnes, on her own, until she married economics professor, Box. While
happy with Box all these years, Clen has always been the love of her
life. When Dabney gets an e-mail from Clen telling her that he's
coming back to Nantucket, she's stunned, since she hasn't seen him in
over twenty-five years. Keeping Clen's arrival secret from everyone,
Dabney also hasn't been feeling well lately and wonders what's wrong.
Combining the lifelong love story of Dabney and Clen with accounts
of Dabney's matchmaking abilities for more than forty couples, The
Matchmaker packs an emotional
wallop. Make sure to have tissues handy...
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Tangled Lives by Hilary Boyd
Sunday, May 11, 2014
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
Jess Thomas' and Ed Nicholls' paths really don't cross, even though she cleans his vacation home. When Ed sees Jess and her kids (teenager Nicky and math whiz Tanzie) on the side of the road after a disastrous traffic stop, he agrees to drive the family to Scotland so Tanzie can participate in a math exam in hopes of getting enough money to supplement her scholarship to a private school. The family's huge dog Norman is with them, and the car can't go more than 40 miles per hour (because Tanzie gets carsick), so everyone gets to know each other quite intimately, especially Jess and Ed. Ed, however, is facing the possibility of prison time for insider trading and is upset about his father's imminent death from cancer. Told through the eyes of Jess, Ed, Nicky, and Tanzie, the reader feels every emotion of these characters and roots for everyone's lives to have a happy ending. It will be published in July.