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The Wedding Girl Madeleine Wickham The first book of 2011 is also my first book for the Chick Lit Plus Reading challenge.  In The Wedding Girl, Milly Havill is set to marry Simon Pinnacle.  Just days before the wedding an event from Milly’s past comes back to haunt her.  A chance encounter leads to the […]

You may have read earlier that I am doing Chick Lit Plus’ Reading Challenge in 2011.  That means I’ll be reading, you guessed it, Chick Lit. Off the table are mystery/thrillers and historical romance.  But anything else goes. I think.  So,  this is where you come in.  I need chick lit suggestions.  I like smart […]

I’d Know You Anywhere Laura Lippman Earlier in the week, I just wanted a book that would suck me in and make me want to turn the page.  I didn’t want to think, much, but be engrossed and entertained. I’d Know You Anywhere certainly met my “suck me in” requirement. But surprisingly, what I thought […]

One of the blogs I follow, Chick Lit Plus (http://ow.ly/3nWGf ), is sponsoring a reading challenge for 2011.  It is a simple challenge, twelve chick lit books throughout the year, two of which must be by a debut author.  So why this challenge? The label “chick lit” alone is enough to turn off some people, […]

A Great And Terrible Beauty Libba Bray With apologies to Spiderman, I’m starting this review with a paraphrase from him: With great power, comes great responsibility.  And that is also the theme of this book. Libba Bray’s title is spot on. Power can be a great and terrible beauty. I read a fascinating essay by […]