Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

Oh wow I'd totally forgotten about E and the C even existing until you just brought it up.......

I liked it too, Rhonda, as well as her other work from around that time that I read, Good in Bed.

I've heard that elsewhere too, Andrea. We'll see if anyone chimes in with anything else!

@Karen -- I loved that book too -- so glad you liked it!
@Beth -- finishing your "designated reads" in a month is as good as checking the last thing off a list!
@Bonnie -- Good to hear, hope it continues to live up to your expectations!

GRRRRR. LOL

There you go again, Lance, junking up my TBR!

Life is too short to finish bad books, Desley. Glad you're moving on.

Maybe your other pick will resonate better, Bonnie.

Glad you liked it, Beth!

LOL, Karen. Good show. I'd count it too!!

I like that title. For some reason it reminds me of that old joke about how someone was watching a fight and a hockey game broke out.

I think it's closer to fuchsia than it is to red, so it's fine as far as I'm concerned.

That's the second lukewarm reception to Emily Henry I've seen this week. I'll give People a try, but we'll see.

From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.

Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”

So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.

Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.

It’s a love letter. To life.

It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

Good luck.

Greenlights Matthew McConaughey

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Book Lovers Emily Henry

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane.

When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.

The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.

The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham

Karen, I read Color Purple when it first came out and recommend it.

Lindsey, I’ve read two or three Katherine Center books in the last couple years and look forward to hearing what you think of this one.

Ugh, Beth.

OOOH, I have Left on Tenth up soon too, Bonnie. Looking forward to your reaction!

@Carolyn: Wattle Island found its way onto my TBR....not sure HOW that happened.

You pick the most interesting books, Joy. I'm always intrigued when I read the blurbs.