Sexless in the City by Anna Broadway

May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Synopsis:
The misadventures of a hapless twenty-something woman whose greatest fear is that she will die a virgin, and whose second greatest fear is that she’ll have sex before marriage.
Review:
I’ll let you know up front that there’s no way that I can be objective about Sexless in the City, because Anna Broadway met the woman who [...]

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Sexless in the City–Win a Free Copy!

April 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

My dear friend Anna Broadway’s book Sexless in the City is coming out on Tuesday, April 15th.
I’m so thrilled for Anna, who met the editor who bought her book in my very living room! I’ve read some sections of it and it’s just great.
So how do you win a copy? Easy–just blog [...]

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Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk

November 2nd, 2007 · 8 Comments

Synopsis:
A headstrong Upper West Side yearns to escape her family’s Jewish Bronx origins and become a Broadway star.
Review:
This is the third or fourth time I’ve read Marjorie Morningstar, and every time I find myself absolutely riveted for the first two-thirds, then bored and indifferent for the final third, only to be knocked out by the [...]

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The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

October 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Synopsis:
3 young women meet in the typing pool at Fabian Publishing, 1952, hoping for love and finding that life has more to offer than they ever imagined.
Review:
I haven’t done much rereading since starting this blog, mostly thanks to the TBR tsunami that Bookmooch yielded out of a few boxes of discarded books my mom cleaned [...]

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Grub by Elise Blackwell

August 2nd, 2007 · 12 Comments

Synopsis:
The trials and travails of a group of young New York City-based novelists.
Review:
Grub is a reworking of a 19th Century novel. I can’t speak to its success in that regard because I haven’t read the original, but I will say that author Elise Blackwell pulls off a rare bird: a satire brimming with humanism. [...]

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The Book of Jane by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt

July 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Synopsis:
Jane’s always found it easy to believe in God, but when she loses everything overnight she has to learn what’s really important.
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Beauty Junkies by Alex Kuczynski

June 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Synopsis:
An investigation into cosmetic surgery, mainly in America, with a focus on the extremes to which people have gone.
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More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel

June 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Synopsis:
A memoir about a writer’s descent into Ritalin and cocaine addiction while working on the not-supposed-to-be-about-her follow up to her best-selling first memoir.
Review:
If I could dare to face my obsession with Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, I would still not go into therapy because any cure for Wurtzelmania would ruin my taste for things [...]

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How I Feel About the Library

May 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Ian from Upper Fort Stewart has a good post about how he doesn’t love the library, and asks how others feel about this venerable institution.
I love the library. It might be my favorite place in the world, in theory if not always in practice. I always feel immediately at home in a library, [...]

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Cousins by Rona Jaffe

February 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Synopsis:
Restlessness in her current relationship leads a NYC woman to wonder if her family’s legacy has doomed her to unhappiness.
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