The BookFetish Blog

Reading The Boyfriend Swap is like watching an entertaining chick flick unfold on the page rather than screen.  It has the feel of two of my favorite Holiday films, Love, Actually, and The Holiday. By natured of its premise, you have an idea where the story is going to go, and its a fun ride getting […]

Kate Fagan’s What Made Maddy Run is a heartbreaking, yet essential read. “In interviews with Madison (Maddy) Holleran’s family and friends, and exhaustive reading of her texts, instant messages, and emails, Fagan reconstructs Maddy’s descent into mental illness that ultimately led to the elite athlete’s suicide at the University of Pennsylvania. What emerges is a […]

Stop what you are doing and get a copy of Dietland now. It’s been a while since I read a book in one sitting, but that’s how much I enjoyed Dietland. I described it to a friend as “truth, humor, and a revenge chick-flick all in one.” From the publsiher’s summary: The diet revolution is […]

I read Don’t Date Baptists earlier this summer and it made me laugh and cry. I know Terry Barr personally- he is a professor at my alma mater. As such I felt like it would be best that I not formally review the book. But I did really enjoy it, and I want to help […]

Edgar Cantero’s Meddling Kids was everything and nothing I expected. From the publisher’s summary: SUMMER 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon’s Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster—another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the […]