Tag: adult contemporary

“Always Starting Over”: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Review

June 6, 2016 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review
“Always Starting Over”: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Review

Review: Holy moly. ONE TRUE LOVES by Taylor Jenkins Reid answers one of my biggest questions – and I think a lot of people’s questions – about whether you can have more than one “love of your life.” I’ve always wondered what would happen and how I would feel if something like this happened to me. Even now, I can’t even fathom it, but I feel like Taylor Jenkins Reid, with her brilliant, sensitive, emotional writing, has given me a glimpse into a little bit of how I would feel. I’m not even going to try to summarize this, because […]

“Our Love Belongs To Everyone Who Loves Us” Review: After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

August 13, 2014 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Our Love Belongs To Everyone Who Loves Us” Review: After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

After I Do Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid (website | twitter) Publisher: Washington Square Press (Simon & Schuster) Genre: Adult Fiction Source/Format: Library eBook Publication date: July 1st 2014 My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. From the author of Forever, Interrupted—hailed by Sarah Jio as “moving, gorgeous, and at times heart-wrenching”—comes a breathtaking new novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding […]

“Call Me, Call Me, Any, Anytime”: Landline by Rainbow Rowell

July 11, 2014 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Call Me, Call Me, Any, Anytime”: Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Landline Author: Rainbow Rowell (twitter | website) Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (MacMillan/Raincoast Books) Source/Format: ARC from BEA14 (thank you, MacMillan!) Publication date: July 8, 2014  My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.  Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems besides the point now. Maybe that was always besides the point. Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up […]