Summer in Tuscany by Elizabeth Adler

August 4, 2010

Plot summary (with spoilers): Gemma Jericho is a 38-year-old New York emergency room trauma specialist who has sworn off love after being hurt by her last relationship. Gemma recalls her amazing times with hunky Texan Cash Drummond in bits and pieces, leaving readers to wonder what happened to bring the affair to an end. Instead [...]

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Twelve Times Blessed by Jacquelyn Mitchard

June 17, 2010

Plot summary (with spoilers): 43-year-old True Dickenson is the millionaire owner of an Internet/mail-order business, called Twelve Times Blessed, that is essentially a gift-of-the-month club for babies. True has been widowed for the past 8 years, and is currently raising 10-year-old son Guy on her own. She’s not exactly looking for love, but finds it [...]

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Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook

June 4, 2010

Plot summary (with spoilers): Sarah Hurlihy is a 40-year-old preschool teacher who’s trying to get back into the dating game a couple years after her divorce from Kevin. The marriage just didn’t work out, as they slowly discovered they had very little in common after all. By the end, they barely spoke to each other [...]

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Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie

January 12, 2010

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” [...]

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Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

October 25, 2009

Plot summary (with spoilers): While home on leave from the Army, 23-year-old John Tyree meets the girl of his dreams. Her name is Savannah, and she’s a 21-year-old college student at the University of North Carolina. The two meet on the beach at Wilmington, where John was riding some waves as Savannah hung out on [...]

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Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner

October 19, 2009

Plot summary (with spoilers): Candace “Cannie” Shapiro is a Philadelphia-based entertainment writer whose world is turned upside down when she reads a magazine column penned by ex-boyfriend Bruce. It’s about “loving a larger woman”, and is part of his “Good in Bed” series. Cannie is absolutely horrified by what Bruce wrote about her, as she [...]

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Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

May 7, 2009

I’m not a huge Nicholas Sparks fan, and in fact have disliked more of his novels than I’ve liked. But I don’t exactly hate his works either, so I wasn’t opposed to trying out the 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe, especially because it was very short and seemed like a quick, easy read. It turned [...]

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