Beauty Junkies by Alex Kuczynski
Synopsis: An investigation into cosmetic surgery, mainly in America, with a focus on the extremes to which people have gone.
Category Archives: American Literature
Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
Synopsis: 10 tales of clinical psychoanalysis by a leading psychotherapist.
To Green Angel Tower (Part 2) by Tad Williams
Synopsis: As the Storm King’s minions gain power, the forces opposed to his evil influence struggle to fulfill an ancient prophecy–that may, in fact, be their ultimate downfall.
What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles
Synopsis: Trapped in a coffin, popular teen Cass McBride works to find a strategy to reach freedom, even as the police trace down dead lead after dead lead.
Hothouse Kids by Alissa Quart
Synopsis: An overview of the “giftedness complex,” from Baby Einstein to kid Scrabble tournaments.
Too Late to Say Goodbye by Ann Rule
Synopsis: An account of the murder of stay-at-home mom Jenn Corbin, and the subsequent investigation that she was not the first woman in her husband’s life to die of a gunshot wound.
Kiki Strike: The Empress’s Tomb by Kirsten Miller
Synopsis: The continuing adventures of the Irregulars, a band of disgraced ex-girl scouts protecting the Shadow City underneath the streets of Manhattan.
Odd Mom Out by Jane Porter
Synopsis: Marta Zinsser and her daughter Eva are finding it hard to make friends in their snooty Washington State neighborhood, especially because none of the other moms seem to understand the pressures Marta faces as a single working mother.
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
My review of The Last Summer (of You and Me), the new book by Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares is up at Blogcritics: Ann Brashares is the author of the beloved young adult novel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its sequels, so it’s not a surprise that in her first novel for grown-ups her adult characters seem reluctant to leave adolescence behind. In The Last Summer (of You and Me), recent college graduate Alice returns for yet another idyllic summer…
More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
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 like “Real World: Reunited” and Lindsay Lohan gossip, and I’m just not ready to give up all of my guilty pleasures.