Alexander McCall Smith takes a turn at adapting Jane Austen in his newest novel, Emma: A Modern Retelling. Don’t call for the smelling salts diehard Austen fans, he does not commit the unpardonable sin of veering too far off course from her classic. Emma is still Emma as are all the other characters right down to their names. What have changed are the times. Now the ... Read More...
Winter Street
It’s Christmas Eve and Kelley Quinn is trying to make sure everything at his bed and breakfast is ready for their biggest party of the holidays. All is going well until he walks into a guest room and discovers his wife Mitzi in bed with the man who’s supposed to play Santa. From there, things at the Winter Street Inn and in Kelley’s life pick up speed like the proverbial ... Read More...
Vintage: A Novel
Hourglass Vintage is a charming used clothing shop in Madison, Wisconsin. It is also where three women at very different stages of life meet in Vintage, the debut novel from author Susan Gloss. Violet is the owner, Amithi is a middle-aged Indian woman, who brings in much of her jewelry and clothes to sell, and April is a pregnant eighteen-year-old who thought she would be ... Read More...
Revenge Wears Prada
Earlier in the week I reviewed The Heiresses as the opening to the beach reading season. For today I thought I’d continue the trend with another female friendly novel that just came out in paperback. Author Lauren Weisberger brings back the so-wicked-you-have-to-laugh Miranda Priestly in Revenge Wears Prada. In case you missed it the first time, here is my review. It’s been ... Read More...
The Heiresses
Sara Shepard is well-known for her YA series Pretty Little Liars which went on to become a wildly successful television show. Now she steps out of the YA world and into the world of wealthy young women in her new novel, The Heiresses: A Novel. The Saybrook family is known for two things: insane wealth and a curse that seems to be knocking them off at an alarming rate. The ... Read More...
A Paris Apartment
Apparently, this is the week for Paris, as it is once again on my reading list as the subject of a new novel. And, again, it is based in fact. A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable takes the ultra-intriguing facts of a Parisian apartment that lay undisturbed from before WII until 2010 and layers it in with the fiction of American furniture specialist, April Vogt, who is called ... Read More...
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