The Catbird Seat by James Thurber is the story of Mr. Martin, an unassuming man whose professional life is turned upside down by the blowhard and abrasive Mrs. Barrows.  When Martin realizes that Mrs. Barrows has plans to get rid of his entire department, he decides to murder her.  He lays out the perfect plan, but once events are set in motion, his mousiness gets in the way.  This actually leads him to a better plan. 
When I first read Thurber, I was a young mousy kid- predictable and solid.  You …

Crazy Southern families- my favorite thing!  
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Synopsis(barnesandnoble)

When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed, Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of …

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My review for Dwayne S. Joseph’s book Home Wrecker posted today at Urban Beatz, Inc.  
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Synopsis
Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother, Jean. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found “the One”—the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee in the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric childhood and her relationship with Jean through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks.
 
I truly enjoy reading British authors.  Most of the time.  Crocodile Soup was the selection …

Overview from booksamillion:
In this follow-up to “Marked,” fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has settled in at the House of Night. But when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart and jeopardize her world.
 
So, book two had a more mystery, more drama, more growth in each of the characters.  I can see why my daughter likes the series.
My rating:  3.9 out of 5
 

Overview from booksamillion:
In this first book of a new series, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been marked by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling with special powers. 
My soon-to-be 14 year old has been insisting that I read this teen vampire series for months.  She kept saying that she knew I was going to love it.  And she was pretty close.
A teen has …

Synopsis (www.barnesandnoble.com)
 
The final story in the now cult favorite Vampire Huntress series.
 
The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America’s most-wanted terrorists following the gruesome demon battle that felled the Washington Monument and crashed the front doors of the White House. The Anti-Christ is positioned for emergence, the powers of darkness have released the pale horse of the apocalypse, and half the Neteru team is pregnant. Plagues from hell that ravage the country are being cited as stemming from bio-terrorism. The nation is under …