Posts

Showing posts from August 24, 2014

Welcome to a Wedding at the Beach!

Image
Welcome to Nantucket where we get to meet the Carmichaels and the Grahams clans. They gather for the wedding of Jenna and Stuart.   Elin Hilderbrand welcomes us to the wedding of the season.   Synopsis: Jenna Carmichael is getting ready to marry the love of her life Stuart Graham.   The planning of the wedding centers around Jenna’s deceased mother Beth’s notebook.   This notebook is sacred to the planning and each and every detail has been gone over by a fine tooth comb.   Conflicts are created between Doug and his current wife Pauline will it be enough to destroy their marriage?   Margot the sister of the bride has to keep everything together with both plans and family members.   Is she up for the job?     Ann the mother of the bride has her own dilemma during the wedding seeing the woman who broke up her marriage.   Will Jenna and Stuart make it down the aisle? My Thoughts:   Another visit to Nantucket that ...

Where Would You Escape To?

Image
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner always be featured during Beach Reads at Writer’s Corner.   Her novel explores what happens when a Political wife learns about her husband’s affair and how it affects her daughters. Synopsis: Sylvie has always put her husband Richard first in their family, regardless of any circumstance.   Richard is a politician and a Senator for the state of New York.   One day She is driving home from an event when she gets a frantic phone call from her best friend.   Seal tells her that Richard has had an affair and it is all over the national news.   What is Sylvie to do with this news?   How will it impact their daughters?   Diana an emergency room doctor and mom to Mylo has her own struggles with her marriage.   Lizzy the younger daughter is coming back from rehab and trying to start her life over.   Will she be successful?   Will Diana be able to cope with her father and other problems? My Th...

In My Mailbox August 24, 2014

Image
Welcome to this week's In My Mailbox!  This week is more the last week of summer to me than the end of July.  I am looking forward to the holiday!  I will be spending next weekend at the Decatur Book Festival!  Just to let you know there is a Kindle Fire HDX giveaway!  So here is the mailbox for this week:  June Bride by Mary Beth Whalen Conversations with a Writing Coach by Susan May Warren Stargazey Nights by Shelley Noble Desperately Ever After by Laura Kenyon I am currently reading:  We have also started reading for Pink: