Jencey's Corner

Jane Green is one of my favorite authors.  I have sat at her feet and learned a great deal about writing.  Her latest novel Falling has some truth from her real life.  She shared the story with us as I attended her tour stop at Fox Tale Book Shoppe.  Synopsis:  Emma is ready to start over.  She has given up her career as a banker to move to Westport Connecticut.  Her good friend Sophie lives there with her family.  So she starts to look for housing and finds a nice cottage on the beach.  Her landlord is her next door neighbor  Dominic. He is also handy to a certain extent.  Emma finds her next calling as an interior designer.  So as Dominic and Emma’s relationship grows will there be a future? My Thoughts:  I very much enjoyed this story.  I will agree with what others have said that this is “classic Jane Green” at her best.  All fiction has some basis in reality.  I feel that her agent was right...

Thank you to Random House for a copy of The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg in exchange for an honest review. When I was a young girl I remember watching the movie of the week on the major networks.  This movie would have an all-star cast much like the Marvel movies, but on the smaller screen.  When I read this novel it had the same feel.  So who would I cast in these roles? Kate O'Hare:  Scarlett Johansson Nick Fox:  Matt Bomer Jake O'Hare:  Terry O’Quinn Eddie:  Kevin Wiseman Boyd:  Bruce Campbell Tom: Scott Caan Willie: Gabriel Anwar Menendez:  Nestor Carbonell Rayna:  Merrin Dungey Synopsis: Kate is finishing a bank robbery case as her boss calls her to tell her what Nick Fox is up to next.  The call reveals that there have been robberies in Nashville Tennessee, Turkey, and France.  Nick Fox is blamed for all the thefts until France.  The FBI has an arrangement with Nick to hel...