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Here’s the dedication of the book:
For Colin Firth
You're a really great guy, but I'm married,
so I think we should just be friends.


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I realized with less than a week to go that I had not even picked out the adult nonfiction book I’d said I’d review for the June Librarian’s Choice page. Oops. The adult summer reading theme (which we’re not really doing) is animals, so I thought I’d look for one of the nice narrative animal books which seem only to circulate as long as they’re ( Read more... )

Now I’ve just wasted at least 15 minutes trying to find the cartoon book review of this book for you, I’ll actually write my own.

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen As Joey Perron hits the ocean, she is annoyed. Did her husband really dislike her soap so much that he would throw her overboard on their anniversary cruise? What she thinks is a shark ( Read more... )

Spin Doctor by Leslie Carroll Susan is a New York City psychologist who spends her early mornings in the laundry room doing pro bono sessions for the women of her apartment building. There's the ballerina who can't talk unless she's dancing, the lesbian couple trying to adopt a baby, the actor trying to recover from her grandmother's death, the ( Read more... )

My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan In Keenan’s third offering featuring former lover Phillip and Gilbert and their best pal Claire, the action is fast, furious, and hilarious. (No, I haven’t read the first two, either, but I might look them up.) Phillip is crushed over the failure of his and Claire’s latest play in New York. Gilbert is in L.A. visiting ( Read more... )

Rococo by Adriana Trigiani B - short for Bartolomeo di Crespi - is a decorator who puts his heart into his work. Although he could have stayed in New York after design school, he chose to return to his small Jersey hometown in an effort to make it beautiful. Life is full of its ordinary concerns - the big fortieth birthday bash that his sister ( Read more... )