Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)’s Comments (group member since Sep 17, 2015)

Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)’s comments from the All About Books group.

I started The Wrong Girl by Laura Wilson yesterday and after a slow start it has really grown on me.

Great idea Evelyn! When we finally get settled and I get all my books out of storage, I might have to 'borrow' your idea. *:D Having said that I just bought 3 books on sale, all by authors I enjoy.....I can see me packing a few more boxes of books when we are ready to move on.

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Just finished The Rejected Writers' Book Club by Suzanne Kelman. I liken this book to a sponge-cake. Light, fluffy, but oh so tasty!

You have to admire anyone who can sing the first verse of Puff the Magic Dragon (a song that always makes me cry) backwards. But rest assured, this is not Suzanne Kelman's only talent.

When I first started this book I thought it was an amusing piece of fluff, probably a 3 star read. The book is amusing, it is fluffy, but fluffy with so much more to recommend it!

I grew to love this madcap bunch of women. It was great to see Janet unwind, loosen up, to become part of something, to make friends, although she would vigorously deny that she was doing so.

Janet is a librarian in the small coastal town of Southlea Bay where she moved with husband Martin, and where her biggest problem is a disappearing trash can and the raccoons that regularly raid it. She is inveigled to attend a meeting of The Rejected Writer's Books Club, where the members face a huge problem. One of their manuscripts has been accepted for publication - it must surely be a mistake because their writing is nothing short of awful - which means that the author must be ejected from the club. They want Janet to help convince the publisher to return the manuscript with a rejection letter, to add to the 400+ rejection letters they currently have, and build their total towards their goal of 500.

But Janet has other things going on in her life. Her semi-estranged daughter is pregnant with twins and is reaching out to her mother.....so she really doesn't have time for this bunch of loonies that want to take her into their midst.

The chapter titles are entrancing "Lemon Cake and Loonies" is one. I wish they had included the recipes (Doris, whom I could see being played by Kathy Bates, loves to cook) for the food they talk about and consume.

An amusing and entertaining read. A fun read. This looks like the first of a series, and I will be reading the next Southlea Bay book.

I received an ARC of this book form Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

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Just finished an very entertaining collection of short crime stories London's Glory by Christopher Fowler. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Just finished Thorn by Vena Cork, the first in a trilogy of books that I am definitely going to go on reading. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And currently reading London's Glory by Christopher Fowler

Just finished Thorn by Vena Cork the first in a trilogy that I am definitely going to go on reading. My review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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A DNF for me on a trilogy published in one volume as A WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN A FARMHOUSE by T.J. Brearton. I finished the first book, but just could not go on. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just about to start Shattered Lies by S.J. Francis

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Just about to start A WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN A FARMHOUSE by T.J. Brearton after finishing a very disappointing read Crossed by Meredith Doench

Crossed by Meredith Doench