Chick Lit

Spinning Forward

When sassymonkey Chattered/Tweeted about Spinning Forward all I did was look at the cover, see the pretty yarn and reserve it at the library. I didn’t look to see what it was about.

When I picked it up on Thursday I realized it was about a woman who opened a yarn store in Cedar Key… and I really did almost cry.

I miss my LYS and my LYSOs. I miss Florida. I miss Cedar Key.

The book itself was nice enough. Not an award winner but a nice story about a woman finding herself. I wouldn’t have liked it nearly as much if it hadn’t been set in Cedar Key and if I didn’t have such great LYSO friends.

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Going Bovine

Not sure why I grabbed Going Bovine on audio, probably related to having just finished South of Broad on audio and feeling like something was missing by being in the car without an audio book.

It was a good choice for audio. I think it was probably better in audio than I’d have found it if I’d read it in paper.

Amusing story and I appreciated that the ending wasn’t fairy tale (TW was less appreciative of that and I bet if the kids had heard the ending, they’d have been disappointed.)

The best parts were related to the CESSNAB (Church of Everlasting Satisfaction and Snack and Bowl) and the “freeing of the snowglobes”.

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The Shortest Distance Between Two Women

I think The Shortest Distance Between Two Women is the first Kris Radish book that I didn’t really enjoy.

I liked the Guilford women. I liked the small SC town the story was set in. I even sort of liked the idea behind the book. But it was long and rambling and not in a good way.

It was feel good chick lit that really never felt good.

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Quaker Summer

I think we bought Quaker Summer at Books a Million the week we moved here, which happens to also be the week before Books a Million closed causing me to hate them for the rest of my life.

Quaker Summer is also on my From the Stacks Challenge list. It’s blue.

It took me a long time to read it because I’ve been a little busy. Family visits. Hospital stays. A tiny little conference coming up. Stuff like that.

It wasn’t a great book, but it wasn’t a horrible book either. A nice piece of Christian chick lit with good characters. The storyline was a little much but that’s ok, it was fun just the same.

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Laura Rider’s Masterpiece

Laura Rider’s Masterpiece had me laughing all the way to the bitter end… at which point, I was bitter. I didn’t like the ending.

TW has pointed out that I am often disappointed with the endings of books. She suggests the ending of a book is not important and I could just skip that last few pages or chapters (depending upon the size of the book) and be happier. Hmm she might have a point.

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The Diary

The Diary is another book I read just because it was sitting in the bedroom and meant I did not have to get up and go find a book in the dark office.

OK I also read it because TW read it the day before and went on and on about how good it was.

Well, it was ok but I wouldn’t rave about how good it was – even if I hadn’t been reading it when I punctured my foot on a ruler. It’s chick lit. It’s also very Nicholas Sparks-like, which probably means a lot of people would rave about how good it is.

I’m not one of those people.

Quick. Nice. Mushy love story. Done.

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2 non Cybils and I am behind on blogging

Ack. No idea how I could have read two adult novels without getting them blogged… oh wait, I know exactly how that happened. There was this, and that, and totally unexpected that, too. Life is getting a little too crazy if I can’t even get a couple of measly chick lits blogged! Must try harder? Or quit work earlier? Or start work later? Something.

Anyway – how come I’ve never read a Molly Murphy book before? Seems a little odd, doesn’t it? I mean TW is constantly picking up weird mysteries and chick lit series books and I usually end up reading a few here and there (which is how we ended up with In a Gilded Cage.)

I almost didn’t read it because I read it over TW’s shoulder a couple of nights when she wouldn’t turn out the light and there was an awful lot about marriage in there. But TW said I’d like it and it was about suffragettes and stuff. So, when I finished a graphic novel and that was the only interesting book on the library shelf… I gave it a go.

Amusing. Too much marriage but heck, it was set in NYC a long time ago. Molly’s a pretty progressive woman for that age.

After that, again I picked up a book TW had just finished. It just happened to be nearby and I couldn’t think of anything waiting on the shelf that sounded better. Also, any book that mentions Jestine’s and The Upstate must be read as soon as possible. Can’t Never Tell does both of those things. It’s also amusing and boring, all at the same time. Which normally isn’t something I’d look for in a book but based on the week I’ve had – it’s exactly the kind of book I needed to read. Something familiar, but easy. Perfect.

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Grand Sophy

When sassymonkey blogged about Georgette Heyer, I thought surely I’ve read some of her books and clicked over to Amazon to look. Hmm Some of them look familiar but maybe I haven’t read any?

I put a few of her books, the ones very specifically blogged by sassymonkey, onto the to be read list for TW’s mom to read and figured I could read them too. When I was in between books, with nothing I really wanted to read sitting on my shelf, I made TW sneak The Grand Sophy off of her mom’s TBR stack so I could read it.

And I loved it.

It made me laugh. It reminded me very much of “Bringing up Baby” – that crazy woman overwhelms the uptight guy sort of storyline with everything going hog wild nuts at the end. And yes, a happy ending.

Loved it.

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