“It didn’t help her at all that everyone thought that the only real tragedy about her story was the common-or-garden nature of it.  Nobody cared that her marriage was over.  They seemed to think that it was OK just to dissolve that magic.  She thought it was a bit like getting her hair cut: no […]

“‘Surprise!’ someone shouts, and then the laughter abruptly dies in our throats.
My father is standing naked on the diving board, his disbelieving eyes slowly taking in the presence of everyone he knows.  His eyes stop on my mother’s face for a short horrible moment,  and then he looks away in shame.
Lena in kneeling […]

The title makes it sound like a cheesy Mary-Kate and Ashley movie… and the author shares a first name with the ever lovely Maeve Binchy. 
It was a fine book.  Nothing close to great,  but it was long and kept me occupied for a few days.  Which,  aside from brilliance, is what I’m looking for in a […]

“You found the key to wisdom in a Camel pack.  It’s certainly one of the more portentous of our sacred objects.  But there’re lots of others.  Personally, I find the kitchen match particularly rich in symbolism, and Dippity-Do hair-set gel in an open invitation to participate in the Tantric aspects  of the divine.  The thing […]

In the book In Her Shoes one of the characters read romance novels,  and then another one read the trash novels (is there really a difference?).  And the book mentioned that all the titles had three words,  In Love’s Paradise,  The Fantasy Begins, Start the Seduction… you get the idea.  So when I saw this […]