2 question pop quiz: 1. What are my two favorite things? 2. What comes out today? Answers: 1. Books and summer. 2. The Book of Summer! I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy…
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There’s no book like Was
"Dorothy," said Aunty Em. "Please come back. You were the light of my life. You were what kept me going all those years." These lines, said by the "real" Aunty Em to depressed adolescent Dorothy…
When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange…
"Marriage doesn't hurt the cuddling or even change the sex all that much, but it does do something very bad to kissing." I could pick about 52 million relevant quotes from Sarah Dunn's amazing novel,…
Yep, still there
Jenny opened a plastic compact, looked into it, and then snapped it shut, as if merely making certain that she was still there. That little bit from Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant has stuck with…
Through the looking glass
"They tell you that you grow up, you get a job, you fall in love, you get married, you buy a home, you have children, you do all that, you get to be an adult.…
Jake Jackson? He doesn’t even know you exist.
"There are those nights when you're pushing thirty and life seems over. When you feel like you'll never tie up any ends and no one will ever kiss your lips again." I felt this way…
Things the 68 year old Dolores says in Perv that sound like something I would say right now
(From Perv-A Love Story) How do you young people say it? They 'light your fire'? I should be shocked but, accch... you kids today! All you kids are comedians now. Well I got news for…
It’s not me, it’s You
I've been reading and hating so many thrillers lately, and I ask myself why I keep going back when I just don't seem to like them. Maybe the problem is You. (LOOK HOW CLEVER I…
Berthe Erica Crow!
"The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that) but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!" These opening lines of The Westing Game still pop into my head anytime I need to remember which…
All I know is what’s in the tap water
I'm not sure I can think of anything more utterly delightful than We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Definitely one of my favorites of the last ten years, maybe ever. This is funny and touching…