Title: Life on the Refrigerator Door

Author: Alice Kuipers

Genre: Contemporary, Chick Lit

Published: August 28, 2007

Claire and her mother wrote notes to each other and left them on the refrigerator door as a reliable means to keep in touch with each other.

There were moments where I was frustrated with both characters. At the beginning I didn't really like the mother because she didn't make more of an effort to connect with her daughter. One example was Claire's boyfriend, she really had no idea what was going on with her daughter's relationship and when she wanted to know something she put a note on the fridge. Then I was frustrated because neither character really would talk to each other about what was happening until the end.
I did like it didn't take me very long to read and I will admit it did make me cry. I am impressed that such a short read was able to affect me as emotionally as this book did.

Overall I gave this book 4 stars out of 5.

Review: Someday, Someday, Maybe

Title: Someday, Someday, Maybe

Author: Lauren Graham

Genre: Chick Lit

Published: April 30, 2013

Franny Banks was a actress in New York who wanted to be able to show a level of success before a
self imposed deadline.

This is one of those reviews where I think it is best handled with the list method.

Things I didn't like:

•     There were about fifty pages in the middle that just dragged. I still laughed at certain points, but I had a difficult time getting through them.

•     The ending felt as if the author was told she had so many pages to fill and when she hit them she just stopped.

•     The basic place where the character ended was almost the same place she had reached a hundred pages into the book. You could see where Franny's personal growth and career were going, but I think I would have liked a little more definitive answer about the success achieved in both areas.

Things I did like:

•   The humor, really not sure you could say enough about this. Even the boring parts had enough humor to keep the story going. I liked the way the character wasn't sure about how the things she was doing kept turning out to be humorous.

•     The secondary characters. I loved Deena and how she wasn't going to give up until she got that specific role. Jane, one roommate, who gave the boyfriends names, which really should have shown Franny how ridiculous her taste in men was. Dan, the other roommate, who just wanted to write a successful screen play.

•   Penny, the seemingly vapid blond actress, who got all the roles. I thought she was fabulous not because she wasn't really an entitled snot, but because she knew her craft well and wasn't above sharing her knowledge of how to work the system.

•     The doodled date book. Really everyone needs some good doodles. My favorite was the pig made out of one of the punch holes. Seriously that portion alone bumped the book up a couple of steps for me.

Over all I gave this book 4 stars out of 5.