Mixed feelings about this one. I really enjoyed Rita's journey from mousey, broken spirited woman unhappily married to a horrible, evangelistic preacher to the warm, confident, wise and sexy Lion lady. The story of the annoying bubbleheaded thief Tracee, and the gorgeous but cruel Lana was far le...
What an odd story! To be blunt, I absolutely *detested* this book for about the first half of it...and because I am one of those hardcore "must...finish..." readers, I was just trudging through, waiting for it to be OVER. Please, just be over...! But then, in a single chapter, Sukie's homelife t...
What does you in--brain or heart?Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe, a world i...
a romantic aura, Sukie called it a rendezvous. “My rendezvous tomorrow with Bobo,” she said to the mirror. She placed her palm on her heart and filled her face with sincerity, an activity that required pushing her breath into her cheeks until saliva bubbled up behind her lips. When a bit of drool...
I don’t think so, and that is probably Finn’s fault. Let me explain. His hair, for instance. It’s that shade known as dirty blond, but on his driver’s license he put brown. Why would anyone put brown when they could legitimately claim blond? He’s unconscious even of his own attributes, of putting...
We had hatched it while having breakfast in my local Pain Quotidien. Julia and I have been friends for thirty-five years. Our husbands were friends first. Jerry met me and Richard met Julia about the same time, and we all fell in love with one another. They lived in Los An...