I got a little behind, so I'm playing catch-up.
The Pact by Jodi Picoult: Like every OTHER Picoult book, she starts at point M, and has a flashback to every letter of alphabet on her way to point Q. And everyone goes through these emotional changes, and everyone has secrets. It was good, mind you, but it was also same old, same old.
Angels by Marion Keyes: Funny and precious! I loved this book! Irish Maggie splits with her husband and goes to Hollywood to stay with a friend and recover. She learns some things about herself and her marriage (but not in the boring introspective way, in a pretty hilarious way).
Skinnybones by Barbara Park: When I was in 3rd grade I found a book in the teacher's crate about a boy who loved to make people laugh, got himself in a lot of trouble, had a problem with the truth, and who liked to make deals with god when he was in trouble. I loved it, read it, and never saw it again. Sometimes I would think about it, and wish I could remember the name so I could find it and give it to my kids. Last weekend I had to get a book for my kid at the library. It was this book. Nothing about the cover looked familiar. I got bored yesterday and picked it up, a lo and behold it was MY book! I kept thinking this seems familiar...... And when he started making deals with god over a little league game I KNEW IT! I got all little-girl ghey excited.
TV Shows: Food Detectives on the FoodNetwork is totally Beakman's World. The host is just basically doing a Beakman impression, and the way they film with the cuts and the speeding up of the actual experiments and the oversized props: screams Beakman's World.
