I recently re-joined my local library (I hadn't been there since I was a kid, but she still had me in her system! Gotta love small towns!), and the first night I was there perusing the selections, trying to find something to read before I start The Carrie Diaries for our next book club, I ran into a friend who told me I had to read the book she had just returned: Separate Beds by Lavyrle Spencer.
I know we have similar taste when it comes to other books. (She's a Twilight fan, too.) But for some reason, it took me forever to get through this one. It's a good ol' romance, with one of those classic "predictable" story lines - low-class girl meets high-class boy, girl gets pregnant, boy's parents force him to marry her, they're supposed to put on a charade until the baby arrives and then get divorced, but whaddya know...they fall in lurrrrrrrve...
Cue the chirping birds and harp music.
Maybe I just haven't been in a lovey-dovey, dreams-do-come-true mood lately. Maybe I've just read so many riveting books in the past few years that this one fell short in comparison.
I don't know what the problem was. But it took me too long to plod through it.
Hoping for better luck with The Carrie Diaries, which I started last night!
3 comments:
i couldn't put Carrie Diaries down...i want to read the next one...Summer and the City!
Well I'm only a chapter in, but I think I'm going to like it!
I have to be in the right mood for those types of books too...
Ok so if you ever get the chance and never have, you so have to read the Stephanie Plum series...
One for the Money is the first. Start from the beginning although you don't have to.
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