It’s that time of year when the reading challenge wrap-up posts begin. I’m starting with the What’s in a Name challenge.
The challenge was simple – read one book that fits each of the six ‘categories’ – Continue reading
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Things We Need by Jennifer Close
Although I love any excuse to appreciate Matthew McConaughey’s fine acting skills, I particularly enjoyed the movie Failure to Launch – the story of a thirty-something-year-old guy who won’t leave his parents’ home. I have four kids – I will be horrified if they are all still living with me in twenty years time. My insurance policy for this situation is bunk beds (I don’t imagine they’ll be so excited by bunks when they’re twenty).
There’s a reason for my Failure to Launch intro…
Things We Need by Jennifer Close is the story of the Coffey family. Parents Weezy and Will should be enjoying their ’empty nest’ but instead twenty-something- year-old sisters Martha and Claire are living at home and son Max, in his final year at college, moves back home with girlfriend in tow. Continue reading
You can choose your friends but… – a top ten list of books about families
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina opens with this –
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
And aren’t readers glad that Tolstoy is correct because such families make for great stories.
This week’s top ten, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is favourite books in a particular setting – I’ve chosen families as my theme (and also cleverly managed to put Tolstoy and Sister Sledge in the same post. I know, brilliant)..
So, play that funky beat and browse this list of the best books about families dealing with their share of unhappiness – Continue reading
‘Girls in White Dresses’ by Jennifer Close
Girls in White Dresses
“The reception was at a country club in some New Jersey suburb. Isabella felt like she’d been to a million of these weddings. By now, they all blended together in a blur of fabric-covered chairs, pink napkins, and crab cakes. Isabella looked around. The centerpieces made her sad.” Continue reading