Charlie Outlaw is a celebrity. His rise to fame has been an enjoyable one despite the attendant problems of becoming famous and never being able to go anywhere every again, but unfortunately his rising star coincides with the fall in fortunes of his girlfriend Josie Lamar. She was the star of a cult...
Margaret is 91, lives in a house in Tennessee on a mountaintop. The house across from the pond from hers has remained empty since the woman that had lived there had died. Empty., until Jennifer and her four year old son moved in, an occurrence that both intrigues and upsets Margaret. She had come to...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-history-of-us.htmlThe History of Us is the book about "the life you make in the path not taken." The book begins as Eloise Hempel is a young professor at Harvard - at the start of what promises to be a successful c...
Reading this was...odd. It's about two women who were extremely close friends for a number of years, and then fall out because of a betrayal. Then one contacts the other after a long silence, because she is getting married. Let's just say it hit a little close to home. Stewart is a good writer. Ther...
When you are a teenager you think every event is dramatic, every disappointment is earth shattering, every love is your forever love but life soon teaches you that’s not the case. The one belief you want to hold on to more than any other is that your best friend will be your best friend for life. ...
This was a quick and enjoyable-enough read, focusing on the friendship between two women. Cameron, the narrator, ended her close, years-long friendship with Sonia several years before the story begins, but Oliver, her employer and friend, finally compels her to go visit Sonia once again. The main pl...
This book hooked me from the very start, and I ended up really enjoying it!
This book came with high recommendations from both Holli and Laura, and I have to add my recommendation to the list!It begins with Cameron and Oliver who was a 90+ year old history professor that she had been living with for three years as his assistant and caretaker. Their relationship ran much de...