It Sucked and Then I Cried – Heather Armstrong

How I had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita
I have been reading Dooce.com for a few months now, and for most bloggers – “Dooce” is living the dream. Heather is a full-time blogger that makes enough money to support her family, and has recently written a book. The book doesn’t break any [...]

The Hour I First Believed – Wally Lamb

I picked this book for new office Book Club (and at about 800 pages, no one will ever let me pick again!) so I can’t really blog about it yet, because some of my loyal readers are members of same book club. By loyal readers, I mean Carolann.
So, this is kind of a placeholder until [...]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsay

This is the novel that the Showtime TV show “Dexter” is based on. I always love when I get to read both the book and see the movie/TV show because when done well, both mediums are pretty awesome. With a movie, I can see someone else’s vision of what something should or could look like. [...]

The Heroines: A Novel – Eileen Favorite

Posting an Amazon.com review seems to be working out for me…
On a picturesque acreage near Prairie Bluff, Ill., 13-year-old Penny Entwistle, and her mother, Anne Marie, run a retreat where literary heroines seek temporary refuge from their tragic destinies. Franny Glass, Madame Bovary, Scarlett O’Hara, Catherine Linton and others find respite from their varied crises, [...]

Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls – Jane Lindskold

Another great book. I am on a roll! This is the story of an insane, autistic girl who can only speak in quotations (usually Hamlet) and what happens to her when she is released from a mental asylum due to budget cuts. She meets up with Mole People (who are actually Jungle Book/Wolf People). [...]

House of Happy Endings – Leslie Garis

Okay Page Turner fans – this is the last of the books I felt oddly obligated to read. And now that Frank is leaving on Friday, I will go back to my regular schedule.
So, this was a memoir about a girl whose grandparents and dad wrote a lot for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (Bobbsey Twins, Nancy [...]

The Woman Who Wouldn’t – Gene Wilder

Yes, that Gene Wilder. How could I resist reading a book by one of my favorite comedians? (If you never saw it – “The Frisco Kid.” Netflix it, I promise.) I couldn’t resist at the library, and the subject matter seemed innocuous enough. Two people meet and fall in love at a mental asylum. Sound [...]

Nobody Nowhere – Donna Williams

Wow. What a wild, wild book. This is the autobiography of an autistic woman. It really challenged a lot of my ideas about autism and what the capabilities and thought processes are. She traces her life from about 3 years to about 26 and describers her world, her abusive mom, the health care system in [...]

Love in the Asylum: A Novel – Lisa Carey

A nice book. I am not sure how else to say it. It’s not really fluff the way vampire books are, but its not “lit-er-ature” either. I probably won’t remember it in a few weeks, but it was well-written. Basic gist: a junkie falls in love with a manic-depressive in a ritzy nuthouse. They work [...]