Cancel the Wedding Author: Carolyn Dingman Southern and simply delightful, Cancel the Wedding reads like a cake walk, sweet and irresistible. A pure delight as a summer read I could carry this book around in the fall and winter as well; it swells with characters both real and tasty! Olivia is a mess. She has a career driven job, and is very successful at it, and a fiancé Leo who drives her a little – well, batty. When her mother dies from cancer, Olivia and her sister Georgia ... continue reading...
Book Reviews: Cancel the Wedding
Sneak peek: Into the Woods
Broad A and I were over-the-top excited to see this first peek of the teaser trailer for Into the Woods. It's on BOTH of our must see lists this year and we felt that we were patient enough. I'm so glad this video arrived, before I headed out in my red hooded cape! I'll try to be patient until the NEXT one comes along... 939b93369b7bd0c073fa92ec7d8c3c3a0f2ca66161622027ba ... continue reading...
Book Reviews: The Car Thief
The Car Thief Author: Theodore Weesner In 1972 Theodore Weesner published his novel The Car Thief to acclaim as a coming of age novel for his character, Alex Housman, the 16 year old protagonist. Like Raymond Carver, Weesner’s language, simple, stark, and powerful frames a story that deeply explores the lack of language that Alex has at hand to deal with a mother who took his brother and abandoned him and his alcoholic father. Housman’s dad wants to take care of his son, but caught up in ... continue reading...
Book reviews: The Miniaturist
The Miniaturist Author: Jessie Burton The Miniaturist hums, thrums, vibrates and threatens in prose that proves tantamount to the art and creation of lives that parallels the theme of the novel. Like The Goldfinch, The Miniaturist explodes with such talent that turning the last page is like running away from home as a small child: you are compelled to return home and start over again. It is 1686, in Amsterdam, a city where merchants flourish and Calvinism contains its citizens like a ... continue reading...
5 reasons to catch Chasing Life
The third and final ABC Family television series that I had the opportunity to screen (and interview) while in Hollywood just a couple of short weeks ago is the one that took me by surprise. On the surface this weekly show geared to young adults looks like a story of a woman with cancer, but it's not. Yes, she has a cancer, yes she's facing chemotherapy, but this show is not a depressing, poor me look at a disease, but rather it's the tale of a young woman determined to LIVE a normal life, ... continue reading...
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