Monday, March 19, 2012

LIKE CRAZY * FAITHFUL PLACE * WHATEVERLAND

Like Crazy - I needed a chick flick the other night, so rented this one which always looked dramatic and romantic on the trailers. And it was! And I really liked it. Urban Cowboy meets International Romance, specially for the younger set.

Faithful Place by Tana French - I don't often read murder mysteries, but I needed books to read, and this was on the bookclub shelf, and many of my other choices were bad non-fiction. It takes place in Dublin, and it's written with lots of conversation between Frank Mackey, an undercover detective and his family. The dialect is wonderful, and coincidentally I was reading it on St. Patrick's Day. Perfect for the murder mystery crowd, and I'll go back to my usual fare of stories.

Whateverland by Alexis Stewart and Jennifer Koppelman Hart - I read this while Steve watched Suburgatory the other night. I was really desperate that day at the library, and curious. I'd heard Alexis and Jennifer on satellite radio a few times, and they can be weirdly attractive. This is a book about nothing, though. You'll learn that Alexis felt ignored as a child and Jennifer was chubby and her family knew Barbra Streisand. Read at your own risk. I promise you are not missing a thing. Bad non-fiction.

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