Desperately Seeking Bookworm

UPDATE:  I have really exciting news about one of my favorite reads of 2013!  The Astronaut Wives Club  by Lily Koppel, has officially been green-lit and ordered straight to series by ABC Studios. According to TV Guide the series will be hitting the small screen this summer as a 10 episode season. This book was a really, really, REALLY good read and I hope the series lives up to the book. Some other exciting news about this series is that Stephanie Savage & Josh Schwartz are the creators and executive producers of the show! If you don't know who they are, they are the creators of  Gossip Girl , which just wrapped up its sixth and final season in December 2012. That was one of my favorite shows (Blair and her headbands made that show), so I'm excited to see what they do with this. Some other news about this series, is that Joanna Garcia Swisher has joined the cast. You may remember her as pregnant teen Cheyenne on  Reba  or most recently as Ariel, the ...

Two books I read in January were both non-fiction accounts that were informative, sad, and grotesquely interesting. The first being Gracia Burnham's In the Presence of My Enemies , a terrifying recount of Burnham & her husbands time being held captive by an Islamic military sect, Abu Sayyaf, based in the Philippines. The second non-fiction novel was Jerry Oppenheimer's Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty . I don't think it needs a one sentence summary because really we can all draw our own conclusions from that title. Photo Courtesy of Goodreads Quick Facts: Based on the true story of two American missionaries taken hostage in the Philippines. The Burnham's (Gracia & Martin) spent over a year in captivity. Rescue attempts along with the actual rescue were very botched resulting in the wounding of Gracia & the deaths of Martin, as well as one other remaining hostage.  Okay so that's not a lot of qu...

Woo Woo 2014, a month late but hey I'm a busy girl. So I've tackled the first book of the new year and it was Julia Pandl's Memoir of the Sunday Brunch.   Pandl a stand-up comic originally from the Milwaukee area tells, personal family tales of her sweet, but often failed childhood memories. From being the youngest of nine to free child-slave labor at her father's restaurant. Told in two parts, the first of funny brunch serving, sibling squabbles, and a lot of twitching; The second of more recent memories of caring for someone who once cared for you. Photo Courtesy of Goodreads.com "I thought my dad was just like every other dad, until the day I worked my first Sunday Brunch" Be prepared for the second half of the book to shock you emotionally. It goes from a funny eye rolling recount of childhood, transitioning into being an adult child with rapidly aging parents. The second half was particularly heartwarming and sweet. Of course there's still som...