Again with the readable. 
Her characters are entirely likeable.  So very chick-lit,  but I’m all right with it.
This part made me giggle to no end, yet it wasn’t really a part of the story.  At all.  
“She researched bizarre head injuries at work, including a true story
of a woman who had gotten mangled by a […]

Very readable, this book.
You know what I love about novels,  or just fiction, I guess?  That the main character can go through the entire book feeling like they have no idea where they are at in life, have no idea where they are going, what they are doing… and you can totally relate.  Then, all […]

"I pinched my cheeks for color and tried to keep my eyes open as wide as I could.  I wanted to be the most gorgeous woman on the planet Earth, so gorgeous that Joe would kneel in front of the whole town and beg me to run away and live in a teepee with him."
It […]

This is one of those books that will stay with me,  it won’t be easy to forget.  But it won’t be happy and easy to think about, either.
Gertie,  she struggled so much.  And it ended with her complete lack of hope, the ultimate betrayal of herself and her craft, and basically everything she stood for.  […]

“There is just this for consolation : an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, […]