More and more often it seems that my book selections are recommendations from friends.  I guess I don’t spend enough time skulking around the shelves at Half Price or Barnes & Noble anymore.  At least I know that I can trust my friends to know what I like, and although I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl by Laurie Notaro isn’t quite as fabulous as Outlander, it was still pretty entertaining.

To be fair, I Love Everybody isn’t really in the same realm as Outlander.  Notaro writes from her own experiences and is extremely self-deprecating.  She’s a woman after my own heart.  Every time I picked up the 226 pages of sometimes painful honesty, I couldn’t help but sing a few bars from I Hate Everyone by Get Set Go.  Even though the main title is I Love Everybody, Notaro actually kind of hates everyone, so I thought the song was fitting. Continue Reading

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When my friend recommended the Outlander to me through email, I thought, "Cool, maybe I'll get around to looking for it the next time I don't have anything to read."  Then when I saw her over the holidays, I asked her to refresh my memory on the book that she had recommended.  She lit up like she was on fire, and I knew immediately that I had to get this book ASAP.

I'm over fifteen years late in my adoration of the novel by Diana Gabaldon, but in my defense, when the book came out in 1991, I was only 10 years old, and although I was advanced for my age, I don't think I was quite that advanced.

When I found a copy at Half Price Books, it was in the romance novel section, but my friend assured me Continue Reading

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