The Help

When I don’t really care for a book, I generally just don’t write about it here. I have written some reviews of books I dislike, if I have specific reasons. If it was simply “this book didn’t grab me” then I just don’t write about it. I read so many books that [...]

The Devil in the Junior League by Linda Francis Lee 12/7/08

I started this book on audio but my truck’s CD player kept telling me it was a bad CD, so eventually I got sick of it and just picked up the book.
So, The Fabulous Frede Were is annoying at first.  Still, surprisingly interesting.  Generally speaking, self-absorbed, oh-so-proper, Junior League of Willow Creek sorts are not [...]

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson

I have nol idea how to describe this book.
So I’ll start with the plot summary: Lena lives in Chicago, where she is a grad student.  “Home” for her is Alabama, where they call her Arlene and where there are a lot of secrets: such as Lena’s mother’s mental illness and whatever happened to the boy [...]

Wedding Belles by Haywood Smith 09/17/08

This was weird. In the first two books, there were 5 “Red Hats”: Georgia, Diane, SuSu, Linda and Teeny.  Along the way they picked up Pru.  I loved SuSu.  She was so unlike her more staid friends.  I loved her irreverence.  Well, SuSu wasn’t in this book.  Not only was she not there, she wasn’t [...]

Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross 06/15/08

I can’t seem to resist a Miss Julia book.  Can’t resist despite the fact that Miss Julia sort of gets on my nerves and I am not that happy that the only black people in the book are servants who fit the stereotype of the good servant who just lives to serve her employer. 
What I [...]

An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris 6/14/08

Book 3 in the Harper Connelly series finds Harper and Tolliver in yet another small town, searching for dead bodies.  In this instance, there are several who have died, presumed to have gone missing. There is a new sheriff and she doesn’t believe that, she with some encouragement (and money) from others, she hires Harper.  [...]

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris 05/21/08

Harper Connelly sees dead people.
 
Okay, that’s not, strictly speaking, true.  She doesn’t see them so much as sense them.  Harper was hit by lightning when she was 15 and since then she can sense dead people.  That’s how she makes her living, finding dead people.  Usually murder victims, but sometimes not.
 
In “Grave Sight,” Harper [...]

Southern Living by Ad Hudler

I think I tried to read this book a while ago and didn’t finish it. 
Margaret is the daughter of an abortion doctor who dies, leaving Margaret a lot of debt and a house in Selby, GA.  Margaret, who has only worked for her mother, moves to Selby and gets a job at the local newspaper.  [...]