I’ve been reading some stuff about how important it is to keep your colon healthy because this organ can have an effect on lots of different bodily functions (besides the obvious ones). Actually, at the risk of providing too much information here, I wanted to learn about the benefits of colon cleanse products, and whether [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Forty-year-old Nina Askew is looking for a change in her life. She’s been divorced and living on her own for a year, and though she loves the independence, she can’t help but feel that her apartment is too empty. She decides that what she wants most of all is a “perky” [...]
One of my friends is a “life coach” who specializes in career counseling. I had lunch with her last week, and had a chance to pick her brain about the kind of advice she dispenses to people who are unsure about what they want to do in life. Often, she seeks to get to the [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Claireece “Precious” Jones is a functionally illiterate 16-year-old girl who is still in junior high school. Though not a good student, Precious finds school to be a refuge of sorts, as whatever she goes through there feels like paradise compared to the physical, verbal, and sexual abuse doled out by mother [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Portland homicide detective Archie Sheridan is slowly trying to piece his life back together after 10 horrific days of captivity and torture at the hands of Gretchen Lowell, also known as The Beauty Killer. Archie is back at work, has just captured the so-called After School Strangler a couple months ago, [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): The night after celebrating her 12th birthday at the Camp David presidential retreat, Willa Dutton is abducted from her home in nearby Virginia. Her two siblings and father Tuck are unharmed, but her mother Pam had her throat slit and died at the scene. Willa is the president’s niece, so the [...]