I actually did not enjoy this book, and it definitely leaves a very bitter taste's in the mouth after you finish. The premise is that our heroine (hyperbole) Carrie Bell wants out of an 8 year relationship with her nearly perfect high school sweet heart Mike. However, Mike, in an attempt to impre...
An nice collection of stories by an excellent writer. The characters in the stories are at an age where their lives have already taken shape, and their careers or roles known. However there's something disappointing about it -- they have arrived but yet it's haunting, a goal so worked for, so d...
Read this book if you are interested in yet another detailed depiction of the lives of quiet desperation playing out in American suburbs. Ann Packer was hailed as a gifted chronicler of the interior lives of women after her debut novel, The Dive From Clausen’s Pier (2002). In it, a young woman wr...
Laura kept her eye on the clock as she moved around the kitchen, unpacking groceries, starting dinner. Her first husband had been late all the time, and early on with Matt she had arrived at restaurants and been amazed to see him there ahead of her; had even been taken by surprise, still choosing...
I looked at her and smelled her and touched her and didn’t want to do anything else. Her mouth was sweet and rosy. I would rest my face against her body and feel full of love, more than I ever had before. This girl. People tell each other “You’re mine” or “You belong to me.” There are songs. I di...
He tended toward long, colorful sarongs topped by Oxford shirts knotted at the waist, and today, preparing to leave, he’d wrapped a capacious loose-weave brown shawl over the ensemble, leaving nothing showing but his lean brown calves and his red suede clogs. The first few class meetings he’d ann...