I had read this book when it first came out and enjoyed it. So when the SAPL was not filling my wish list fast enough to suit me, I decided to give it another try. it has been long enough ago,that I didn't remember many details, just general ideas. I re-enjoyed it. The focus character is a little...
The beginning of this novel put me off because of the nasty character in Gloria Garrison. It is written that way for a reason as I found out by sticking with the slow parts until it picked up and took a twist. The story is about three cousions from New York who visit Santa Fe and their long estr...
Set in the 1940s, this novel shows us the divide in the business world between women's role as secretaries and companions and the men's role as lawyers and thinkers. Women aren't given much credit for an ability to think. The main character, Linda Voss, breaks through that mold, obsessed with the...
Susan Isaacs is one of my all-time favorite authors. The Isaacs givens: snapping hilarious dialogue, spot-on descriptions, the x-factor that makes reading her stories as absorbing as being under hypnosis are all there. I re-read Almost Paradise recently and was struck by how creative Isaac's str...
Steven Brady, alcoholic detective, was not a character I could feel sympathy with. Nor were any of the others. His struggles and lusts were just pauses in the story while he wallowed about. I have little patience after the first few so found skimming the book for where the plot returned the way ...
I have become very fond of Susan Isaacs because of her saucy heroines, who seem to live the good life that I missed out on by being born before the sexual revolution really took hold. This one is about an interesting character, Amy Lincoln (no relation) whose mother abandoned her as an infant, a...
I'm not quite sure how to review this book...the lead character, Marcia, is a political speechwriter living with an extremely handsome but uncommitted campaign manager. Being apolitical myself, some of the behind the scenes stuff was a different premise than the standard fare. But early on I was ...
This is one of those books that stays with you for years. Though I read this years ago (as an older teen), there have been several occasions when I would have liked to read it again. I was unable to recall the title or the author and only found it again through creative "google-ing."(view spoil...
I finished this book up this morning on my bus ride into work. It took me five days to finish this, which is a little long for me. That could be an indicator of how well I liked this book. This is a difficult review for me because I did like the story overall, just some parts were a little much.T...
She cradled a black snakeskin Manolo Blahnik sling-back in her hands. A moment later, her eyes closed. When Roberto, her usual salesman, gently tapped her shoulder and murmured “Ms. Giddings? Seven and a half, right? Ms. Giddings?” he got no response. She was comatose. Before the gray dawn of the...
I treasured the tiny routines that figured into the sum of the workday. Buying my lunch, hearing the guy behind the deli counter announce, “Here she is, Miss No Liverwurst,” since each day I gazed longingly at the liverwurst, so fat it looked ready to burst out of its skin, then never ordered it....
Bob glared at me and took several deep breaths, overtures to a gloriously orchestrated aria of snide remarks. But he couldn’t find anything to say. I looked away from him and concentrated on the prismatic effect of early afternoon light passing through a crystal ashtray on the coffee table. “The ...