Comfort Food - Kate Jacobs

Comfort food is a more recent offering by Kate Jacobs, author of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Comfort Food centers around Gus Sampson, television cooking host extraordinaire, her life and her family.

Gus's life begins to crack as her television cooking show is cancelled and she begins to doubt herself a little as she approaches the big 5-0. Gus is forced to co-host a show with a woman she despises to try to save her career as a television host. The only job she really knows and loves.

I am a sucker for any book, movie, anything with a food theme. As a result, I liked this book. However, the characters were not as strong and likeable as those in the Friday Night Knitting Club, and other novels of this genre. But the story line is entertaining and kept me wanting to read. A good no-frills, no serious throught required type of book.

Sleepwalking in Daylight - Elizabeth Flock

A few years back I real Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock. And while it was a bit haunting, it was well written and I enjoyed the novel overall. When I came across a copy of Sleepwalking in Daylight, I thought I would give it a go.

This novel is uncomfortable to read. I felt physically uncomfortable several times while I was reading this book. I felt a bit like I was peeking in on someone's life and seeing things that I should not have been seeing.

This novel tells the story of Samantha, a stay at home mom doing all of the "mundane" things that stay at home moms do. Shuttling kids, coordinating family schedules, cooking, cleaning, the gamut. Samantha is becoming more and more resentful with her role as she deals with a husband that is mentally absent from the family, young twin boys, and a rebellious adopted teenage daughter.

Like Me and Emma, this book's ending will haunt you. It is not a novel for the faint of heart.

Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella

My love for Sophie Kinsella started with Confessions of a Shopaholic, and grew from there. I have loved reading each and every one of the books she has written both under this name and her given name, Madeline Wickham. So, of course when this book was release, I rushed right out purchased it the day it was released. In hardback. I almost never purchase hardback books, unless its from the thrift store.

Twenties Girl is a bit of a departure from Kinsella's "usual" story lines. It's different, but it is enjoyable. In this novel, Laura Lington is visited by the ghost of her dead aunt Sadie, a fiesty, fiery tongued gal who grew up in the 1920s. Think flappers, the Charleston, and feather boas. Sadie is a hoot as she demands Laura find a neckace near and dear to her heart. The banter between the two is memorable and hilarious. This book is full of charm and humor. The perfect wind me down evening read. Pick it up and read it today!

The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Clayton's novel, The Wednesday Sisters, tells the tale of a group of women who meet in a neighborhood parn in Palo Alto, California circa 1967. The timeframe spans several decades, starting in the late 1960s. These Wednesday sisters do not have a lot in common on the outside. Each woman has her own quirks and interests, struggles, trials, and tribulations. But they come together in the spirit of sisterhood and forma real family bond together.

As the years pass, children grow, and families experience victories and hardships, the Wednesday sisters begin to form a writing group to express themselves. As each woman expresses her hopes, dreams, and fears through poems, short stroies, and novels, they experience and explore the changing world around them. They support each other, argue with each other, and utlimately, grow together. War, racism, women's rights, space exploration, and gender roles in society are some of hte main themes the women explore throughout the book.

This was such a light, fun, and inspirational read. this novel is a true feel good read. Humours and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends.