"Babycakes" by Donna Kauffman is another of her fluffy Cupcake Club romances. This one was really sweet (haha). Kit moves to small Sugarberry Island (which must have the highest per capita of sweet-tooths in the world) to help Lani run her mail order cupcake business after her own family pie business is stolen out from under her by her greedy brother in law and oblivious sister. Also new to the island is Morgan Westlake, who is now guardian to his dead brother's five year old. Kit is initially wary of Morgan, since the Westlake family helped her brother in law steal her business, but she soon realizes Morgan is nothing like the rest of his scumball family and their romance goes full swing.
"The Art of Hearing Heartbeats" by Jan-Philipp Sendker was very touching. Julia's successful father disappears one day, and four years later she travels to the remote mountain village in Burma where he grew up to see if she could discover what really happened to him. She meets U Ba, who has a haunting tale of love and loss to share with her. It was very sweet.
"Suburgatory" by Linda Erin Keenan was a collection of snarky tales of a woman who thinks she's better than the suburban moms she's surrounded by. Some were funny but some were just mean.
"Boy Toy" by Barry Lyga was magnificent. Josh is almost ready to graduate from high school with perfect grades and an amazing baseball career behind him. He also has a terrible secret, which everyone knows: when he was in seventh grade he was molested by his history teacher. She's about to get out of prison, and Josh is still struggling to understand what happened to him five years earlier. It was incredibly powerful. Such a great writer!
"Read My Lips" by Sally Kellerman was a quick read, a short autobiography about her life. I haven't seen too many of her movies, but the ones I have seen I liked her in. She was funny and honest, and has never lived more than 25 miles from where she was born, which is pretty incredible.
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