This humorous book is an LA story about a reclusive writer, her eccentric young son, and the outsider sent in to look after them. Be Frank With Me is Julia Claiborne Johnson’s debut and it’s an entertaining crossover book about love and relationships, with a dash of Hollywood glamour. Mimi wrote a widely acclaimed once-in-a-lifetime […]
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A lot of my audiobook listening is done in the kitchen so it makes sense that I get lost in some foodie fiction now and then. I’ve listened to a few appetizing audiobooks lately and I’ll talk a little about each of them in this roundup. And bonus- all of these audiobooks are half-off […]
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The Admissions is about a high school senior who has worked her whole academic life to get into Harvard. Meanwhile, her upper-middle-class Northern California family seems to have it all together on the outside, but inside they all have some secrets to admit. The Hawthorne family’s picture perfect California dream is starting to fade out. […]
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In Pretending to Dance, Molly and her husband are preparing to adopt a baby through open adoption. This process brings up some painful family memories for Molly- secrets that Molly fears will threaten the adoption as well as her marriage. The synopsis of this one really drew me in- I was so curious to know […]
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A Window Opens is Elisabeth Egan’s debut novel. Egan is the books editor at Glamour magazine and she draws on her personal work experience for this book. It’s about a magazine editor who experiences culture shock when she starts working for retail giant Scroll. I’ve had my eye on this book because I like workplace […]
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After I Do is the third book I’ve read by Taylor Jenkins Reid this year. I started backwards with her latest offering Maybe in Another Life, caught up with Forever, Interrupted and finally worked my way back to After I Do. This is probably my favorite book of the three- though all of them are […]
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