These are a guilty pleasure for me. I love Becky Brandon. I think she is hilarious. On the surface, she’s all fluff but beneath it, she is smart, funny, loving and very loyal.
Of course, she is always getting into some sort of trouble. In this case, she insists that she must go to a new obstetrician because she wants to go to this doctor who is “ob to the stars.” She gets in but it turns out that the doctor is Becky’s husband’s ex-girlfriend. Much drama ensues but in the end, as always, all is well and Becky has a darling baby. But I wont’ say Baby What as that will ruin the surprise. 
Fun and fluff which a girl needs sometimes.
Valerie is a livejournal friend of mine, so I had some idea that she was funny. I didn’t realize until I read her book that she is hilarious. I laughed out loud at this book. Her sense of humor is dry and vaguely sarcastic. A lot like mine. Essentially, this is a book of essays about … life in general. Whatever strikes her fancy that day, or whatever is brought to her attention. No absurdity in the world goes un-commented. I highly recommend that, if you could use a laugh today, that you pick up this book.
I woke up at 3:30 this am and couldn’t go back to sleep, so I finished this book. I think I read about an hour before I went back to sleep.
Nothing really to say. It was an interesting book but not among Alice Hoffman’s best.
I only read this book because MPB told me it was among her favorite books. I ordered it, and a couple of other of her favorites, from ama zon. com.
I’m not a huge fan of books that are full of symbolism. I like authors to say what they mean, for pity’s sake.
This book captures the essence New Thought. JLS is a Christ-allegory. There were things that made me think perhaps it was Hindu or Buddhist, and perhaps an argument can be made that it is. I chose to see the New Thought ideas.
Essentially, JLS isn’t happy with the Group Think of the gulls. He wants to learn to be a better flyer – he thinks that there has to be more to life that chasing food. All the gulls around him tell him that he’s wasting his time, eventually they shun him. He’s Outcast.
I can not do this book justice. It’s short and a easy to read, so you should get it.
