Vacation/s in a cup/s; panda porn; coconut pillows; coastal business casual; a lemon thing on a spoon; and building sea planes. In The Wedding People, author Alison Espach has created a bunch of things that will be an ‘if you know, you know’ moment for readers – shorthand for “I’ve read The Wedding People.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: chick-lit
My Latest Listens
Butter by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton) Continue reading
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Rom-coms/ meet-cutes aren’t my usual thing but I made an exception for Mikki Brammer’s The Collected Regrets of Clover because the main character, Clover, is a death doula – and grief-lit is my thing.
It’s a simple story – Clover, an introverted and socially-anxious woman, lives a life structured around her work, her pets, and visiting death cafes in New York City. Flashbacks provide context for her chosen profession – Clover’s parents died when she was a child, and she moved to the city to live with her grandfather. Continue reading
Two light reads to start the year
While boating, I devoted my reading time to a couple light novels. Continue reading
My Latest Listens
The Hemsworth Effect by James Weir Continue reading
Love and Other Puzzles by Kimberley Allsopp
I have been in a MAJOR reading-rut. In fact, I’ve been faffing-about with two novels (both good, both stories that I’m enjoying) for a month (IKR?!). I decided I needed to change things up. So, I turned to a genre I very rarely read from – rom-com/ ‘chick-lit’ – and picked up Kimberley Allsopp’s debut, Love and Other Puzzles. It was everything I expected – light, warm, and pleasing in a way that a good rom-com always is (i.e. predictable but comforting, and no-loose-ends). Continue reading
Sample Saturday – loss, an affair, and friends
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
I’m limping to the reading finish line this year, and in order to get there, I’m choosing books that demand very little from me. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton fitted the bill nicely.
‘Chick-lit’… ‘Women’s fiction’… I’m not even sure what these labels mean now. When I was in my twenties, it meant you could walk into a book store, pick up a novel with a hot pink cover and a picture of a stiletto shoe on the front, and be sure that you would have a fun bit of reading ahead. This genre has not been my choice in the last 15 odd years, but 2020 seems to have changed all sorts of things. Continue reading
I was hoping…
Two recent reads, both books that I had high hopes for, were just not as snazzerific as I’d expected. Continue reading
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
I wasn’t planning on reading What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty – I appreciate that she writes books that smash the ‘beach reads’ category (excellent twists, funny, and light, easy reading) but they’re not really my thing. What Alice Forgot has been sitting on my Kindle for seven years and I was reminded of that when it popped up as an available audiobook in my library’s stupidly meagre audio offerings. Having just finished a dense book about the Holocaust, listening to the wonderful Caroline Lee read Moriarty was ideal. Continue reading