Tuscan Holiday by Holly ChamberlinMarina Caldwell just graduated from college and before she marries her graduation gift from her parents is a 2 week trip to Tuscany. She's excited til she finds out her mother is going with her.Her fiancee has a surprise-the honeymoon he's planned for them will b...
Loved this book. I earmarked several pages with really thought provoking paragraphs. For someone from a small town with friends whom I knew from when I was 4, this book strikes a chord. It has the beach, New England, pre-teen-girl stuff (macrame bracelets, riding bikes, talking about liking bo...
This book started out a little slow but it didn't take long before it really took hold of me. It was a great story with a subject you don't often read about. There are a few lessons to be learned here. Trust not only in yourself but especially in others. Lots of self reflection and understandi...
This is the second book by H. Chamberlin that I bought for the summer. They were both paperbacks from Sams, with a beach theme. I don't care for her writing. It almost seems as if she has some underlying issues that she wants to vent about. Both books talk a lot about homosexual couples, seemi...
The title of this book caught my attention: Beach & Quilts. Two of my favorite things. However, I would not recommend this book. The story line is flat and uninteresting. I was almost to the end of the book and still found myself waiting for something significant to happen. The characters were bl...
Nobody said life was fair. That love was forever. Or that getting back in the game would be easy. Then again, nobody said they had to play by the rules, either...Jess Marlowe doesn't know why she suddenly stopped loving her husband, Matt. According to her mom, it's because of Jess's inability to ...
Pink used to be Anna Trauslen's favorite color. Just yesterday, she was a fabulous, single, happening thirty-seven year old event planner. Then the stick turned pink. Pink as in positive...as in pregnant...as in pure, unadulterated panic. This wasn't supposed to happen: she's scheduled to marry t...
Meet Sophie, Eva, and John. In college, they did everything together. Then they drifted apart. Now, twenty years later, they're about to reunite to compare lives, talk about the past, and plan for the future. But will it bring them closer together or tear them apart? Sophie was accustomed to livi...
“What do you mean, live with them?” I asked. I thought: If they want to formally adopt her, I’ll kill them. “Just that.” Gemma sat at the table with me. “They want me to live with them and go to some private school. Ellen says they’ll pay for everything, tuition and all. And that they’ll give me ...
A familiar footfall in the hall made her look up. “Isobel?” Her daughter came into the room. “You look tired,” Louise said. “Do you feel okay?” Isobel shrugged. “I’m fine. I just didn’t sleep well.” “Oh. Sorry about that. I hope you didn’t inherit that habit from me.” Isobel half-smiled. “Are you...
She had been thinking about what Stella had told her and Rosie the other day in Perkins Cove. She had had no idea life around someone like Mackenzie could be so miserable. And she was thinking about how nice it had been of Mrs. Patterson to take them to Old Orchard Beach. Meg had felt a little aw...
I forgot Mrs. Cirillo died last year. More later. M The conversation—one part of it, anyway—we’d had at Mistral stuck with me. I thought later about the notion of leaving Boston, of moving away not only from Doug but from my father, my one true remaining tie to family. This train of thought, of c...
Poppy looked up from the bunch of carrots she was peeling. “He’s not mine,” she said. He belongs to Yorktide. “And how did you meet him?” “I was chatting with the very friendly woman behind the counter at the convenience store,” Allie said, “when in came this incredibly beautiful man, to whom the...