Note to self: avoid books that include a reading group guide. Who writes these guides anyway? They are so simplistic and patronizing. The real problem is not the guide, naturally, but the likely pairing of said guide with fairly insipid novels, The Wednesday Sisters being the second encounter for me in a few days (Bed [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘friends’
October 7, 2009
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Val and Addie were friends once, in elementary school, but Val left Addie behind in high school as she moved into the popular people clique and Addie ate herself into an enormous body. Fifteen years later, Addie has a nice house, a good job, and a thin body, while Val may well have killed someone. [...]
October 15, 2008
The Other by David Guterson
David Guterson wrote the wonderful Snow Falling on Cedars (maybe I’ll re-read it shortly) and the bizarre Our Lady of the Forest about a young girl who says she has visions of the Virgin Mary and attracts a bizarre following in a Washington State forest (great start, then petering out). The Other seems to follow [...]
