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Chase Banter #2
Marching to a Different Accordion
Chase Banter had thought she’d adjusted completely to the demands of parenthood. She’s not disconcerted by her four-year-old daughter building the city of Athens with Legos, or the first encounter with the PTA. Her writing career has hit bumpy roads on her latest tour, though, and then things don’t go so well when denizens of the PTA mention book and banning in the same sentence.
Her best friend forever Lacey has a plan. It’s worldwide domination. Gather all the sisters-in-arms together, empower them to be their inner lesbian superhero and take over. Even if it takes a couple of months, the outcome would be just what the world needs.
It’s a Lesbian Nation rumble as they raise the forces of revolution. Girlfriends, family, co-workers and especially the PTA aren’t going to know what hit them.
Saxon Bennett’s tongue-in-cheek take on Chase Banter’s quirky lesbian life won a Golden Crown Award for Family Affair. Join the revolution and begin Marching to a Different Accordion. Superpowers not mandatory.
Her best friend forever Lacey has a plan. It’s worldwide domination. Gather all the sisters-in-arms together, empower them to be their inner lesbian superhero and take over. Even if it takes a couple of months, the outcome would be just what the world needs.
It’s a Lesbian Nation rumble as they raise the forces of revolution. Girlfriends, family, co-workers and especially the PTA aren’t going to know what hit them.
Saxon Bennett’s tongue-in-cheek take on Chase Banter’s quirky lesbian life won a Golden Crown Award for Family Affair. Join the revolution and begin Marching to a Different Accordion. Superpowers not mandatory.
288 pages, Paperback
First published May 17, 2011
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Saxon Bennett
54 books180 followersSaxon Bennett is an admitted bibliophile and has the bookcases to prove it. Her favorite book is Harriet the Spy. She grew up among the pine trees of Washington where she learned to be a Keeper of Odd Knowledge with a special liking for new words - the queerer the better. She has a penchant for inspirational quotes - the more motivational the better. A serious aficionado of pie, she also drinks a lot of coffee and tea - especially when she’s writing, which she does every day. Saxon is a parent and a wife—two things she never thought she’d be - and she writes blogs about her family in the style of Erma Bombeck. In her next life she wants to be a professional snowboarder. She likes to grow flowers and tend to her pond. Jelly beans, gummy bears and licorice are her favorite candies. An avid walker with a goal to walk every street in her small town, she hits the pavement each morning. To keep herself limber, she does beginner yoga. She’d like to learn to meditate but her mind is as restless as a squirrel trapped in a box. As an amateur seamstress, she is endlessly trying to create the perfect butch purse. Her favorite quote is “Man plans, God laughs.” Saxon is the author of fifteen novels. Her book Family Affair won the Goldie for General Fiction in 2009. She won the Alice B. Reader Award for her body of work in 2012. Her second book in the Family Affair trilogy entitled Marching to a Different Accordion won a Golden Crown Literary Award for general fiction in 2012. Her book In the Unlikely Event is the final book in the Family Affair trilogy. All her books are available at Amazon and Bella Books in both print and electronic format. She has also written two books with her partner Layce Gardner and they are More than a Kiss and Crazy Little thing. Check them out on Amazon.
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March 18, 2019
I love Addison and Bud. This book cracked me up.
April 18, 2021
Understanding Less!
I love Chase Banter and I love Bud. I missed Addison although she had a single important deed to be done which was hilarious but was very scarce in this book and Gitana too was not as pronounced as she was in the first book. The story line with Bud and a speech therapist before starting school and also now being four and a genius added some comedy. However the gang is still pulling Chase in to things when she wants out. Now almost everyone is a lesbian and this books tone was so much more literal. Rougher than the first one. Looking at the excerpt for Book Three and I am definitely not willing to commit. So this is it for me - Good Luck Chase....
I love Chase Banter and I love Bud. I missed Addison although she had a single important deed to be done which was hilarious but was very scarce in this book and Gitana too was not as pronounced as she was in the first book. The story line with Bud and a speech therapist before starting school and also now being four and a genius added some comedy. However the gang is still pulling Chase in to things when she wants out. Now almost everyone is a lesbian and this books tone was so much more literal. Rougher than the first one. Looking at the excerpt for Book Three and I am definitely not willing to commit. So this is it for me - Good Luck Chase....
February 25, 2019
A bipolar woman struggles to address a group.
The author has created a believable story about the antics two people go through when one of them has a problem of meeting and knowing how to conduct herself in front of other people. Delightful story. Enjoy!
The author has created a believable story about the antics two people go through when one of them has a problem of meeting and knowing how to conduct herself in front of other people. Delightful story. Enjoy!
April 22, 2019
This is a nice story. Sometime I got lost with all the fancy words. I thought the first book was better, although this one was hilarious at times. Nice love scenes with a nice ending.
July 15, 2016
Just a quick note - mostly funny story: Lacey continues to annoy me; pink mafia and concept kind of enraged me.
Reading these three books more or less one after the other probably wasn't smart. Not sure I'm going to be able to finish the third. The underlying story in that one is completely and utterly stupid. But that's the third book, this is the second.
It's four years after the first book. Bud, yes they still call their girl Bud, is 4 now. Addison, who played a deepish role in the first book appears to have been pushed aside for Bud in this book here. Though Addison makes an appearance here and there. Addison is 11 now. Addison's mother, and Chase's mother have become private eyes.
An interesting enough book. Still good. Slice of life. First book had no real negatives (beyond not knowing who actually wrote it). Second book had negatives (like Lacey, Pink Mafia, etc.).
Reading these three books more or less one after the other probably wasn't smart. Not sure I'm going to be able to finish the third. The underlying story in that one is completely and utterly stupid. But that's the third book, this is the second.
It's four years after the first book. Bud, yes they still call their girl Bud, is 4 now. Addison, who played a deepish role in the first book appears to have been pushed aside for Bud in this book here. Though Addison makes an appearance here and there. Addison is 11 now. Addison's mother, and Chase's mother have become private eyes.
An interesting enough book. Still good. Slice of life. First book had no real negatives (beyond not knowing who actually wrote it). Second book had negatives (like Lacey, Pink Mafia, etc.).
October 24, 2013
It wasn't really to my taste -- too much madcap, not enough story, too much pointed commentary, not enough character development. I also found the main character to be unlikable -- this really reads like the second in a series, and not having read the first, I couldn't really bring myself to care about any of them, especially the kid (who was much better before she started speaking). I did like the support group. Not badly written, but not something I particularly enjoyed reading
August 29, 2014
Every word Saxon puts to page is delightful and crafted with skill and brilliance. This book is a follow-up to the book Family Affair and is enjoyable from the first page to the last word! You will be glad you read this and will immediately want to order the next in the series.
April 1, 2016
Great book.
I loved this second book on the trilogy as much as the first. I love the Chase Banter family. Thanks to Saxon Bennett for not taking 5 pages to describe every sex scene. We get enough of that with some of the other authors.
I loved this second book on the trilogy as much as the first. I love the Chase Banter family. Thanks to Saxon Bennett for not taking 5 pages to describe every sex scene. We get enough of that with some of the other authors.
May 28, 2018
Two thumbs up!
An excellent continuation of Family Affair. You want nuts? Read this book and you'll get it in multiple. As a reader said in the review "it was comedic neurotic fun" and I totally agree. Highly recommend!
An excellent continuation of Family Affair. You want nuts? Read this book and you'll get it in multiple. As a reader said in the review "it was comedic neurotic fun" and I totally agree. Highly recommend!
April 15, 2018
For some unexplained reason this book took me longer than anticipated and one can assume perhaps it was boring? No way! This was quirky with a number of interesting characters, for me I especially love Bud for her precociousness and certainly love the main character Chase for her wittiness and vulnerabilities. I also like the mature state on relationship and commitment message being passed on here as well as that of women empowerment.
The secondary characters also fleshed my appreciation but alas it is not a book without its own flaws. For instance I actually feel it was unnecessarily lengthy, some characters felt to me unacquainted (thus needing you to have knowledge of them from the first book which I am yet to read) and perhaps it just me but I feel it was too character oriented without balancing it off with some appreciative background exposition.
The secondary characters also fleshed my appreciation but alas it is not a book without its own flaws. For instance I actually feel it was unnecessarily lengthy, some characters felt to me unacquainted (thus needing you to have knowledge of them from the first book which I am yet to read) and perhaps it just me but I feel it was too character oriented without balancing it off with some appreciative background exposition.
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