The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

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 out of her house and sent to me. My reading life has been consumed by a tyranny of the new, but sometimes an old friend is just what I want. Continue reading

Read With Abandon (Booking Through Thursday)

Happy Booking Through Thursday, everyone!

Today’s suggestion is from Cereal Box Reader:

I would enjoy reading a meme about people’s abandoned books. The books that you start but don’t finish say as much about you as the ones you actually read, sometimes because of the books themselves or because of the circumstances that prevent you from finishing. So . . . what books have you abandoned and why?

I just abandoned a book the other day… Marge Piercy’s Vida. See, I finally got around to watching the last episode of “Mad Men” and was craving a read in the same vein. Vida tells the story of a 60s radical sent underground… not quite the same era as “Mad Men” but I was hoping it would satisfy. Continue reading