What to Read? … What to Read?

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“So how long have you been a ventriloquist?” Sandra asked Louis Feller (aka McCarthy2 on Match.com) as she steered her Toyota away from Clyde’s of Georgetown. She was just filling the silence during the ten to fifteen minutes it would take her to drive him to the metro at Tenley Circle, but had already given up hope of good conversation.

“I’m not a ventriloquist,” ‘Arlon’ said, in Louis’s grating falsetto. It was like nails on a chalkboard at this point. “He’s the one with his hand up my ass.”

That was a new twist on what had already been a tedious act. Now Arlon/Louis was getting foul. Nice.

But maybe Louis was a great guy whose one glaring fault was that he didn’t know when a joke should end.”

O.K. ladies mark this date on your calendars June 10, 2008. From the bestselling author of “Shoe Addicts Anonymous” comes a sexy and hilarious book about three women who must save themselves from financial destitution, emotional blackmail, marital ruin, and really, really awful blind dates.

Loreen Murphy hadn’t meant to hire a male prostitute in Las Vegas. It was all just a big, stupid, expensive misunderstanding. Abbey Walsh never intended anyone to find out about the fact that she’s being blackmailed. As a minister’s wife, her sordid past was supposed to be a secret. Tiffany Vanderslice Dreyer never dreamed that she’d find herself up to her eyeballs in credit card debt from one mad moment of a shopping spree. She’s an upstanding wife and mother with the perfect marriage…right? Secrets of a Shoe Addict is the story of three women who bond together when they find themselves in more than one kind of trouble. It’s the story of how sometimes, you hide a secret side that can get you in–and out–of dire straits. It’s about romance, friendship, kids, revenge, affairs, and most of all a love of all the well-heeled things in life.

This looks like it will be another hit for Beth Harbison but what shall we do until it hits book stores near you? Why shop of course. I think a new pair of shoes is in order to celebrate the release of this new book.

Happy Reading

Sarah

Thank you to Beth Harbison for the picture

“Of all the things she knew or remembered about her mother, and all the things she didn’t remember, Lorna knew one thing for sure: clearly the love of shoes was hereditary.
She took the Delmans out of the box slowly, mentally shoving away the memory of handing over her credit card and waiting - like a gambler who’d bet it all on red - for the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ from that faraway Credit Card Roulette Approval Commission.
This time it was yes.”

I am super excited, the nice weather is FINALLY here and you know what that means. Cute shoes; what? Did you think I was going to say cute outfits? Nah, I may like cute outfits, but honestly girls it’s the SHOES that make it. After going through my closet and pulling out my Mckim Sandals and my handy dandy sport sandals, I was excited…ehm…I mean sad that they had to be replaced, and what does that mean? Shopping! So that’s what I did today, I went shopping; had some lunch and on my way to the shoe store I side-stepped into the book store, shocking I know. Guess what I found? Come on guess. That’s right a book about shoes, how wonderful is that?

Shoe Addicts Anonymous arrives just in time for beach-read season, the hardcover fiction debut of cookbook author and romance novelist Harbison features four D.C.-area women who meet weekly to swap and chat about…what else shoes. Four different women, one passion; follow Lorna Rafferty as she deals with her consumers debt; Helene Zaharis, a Senator’s trophy wife, who dreams of escaping her loveless marriage; Sandra Vanderslice an overweight phone sex operator who struggles to overcome her agoraphobia long enough to attend the shoe meetings; Joss Bowen, who doesn’t even like shoes and is a nanny for a shrew socialite’s troublesome sons, the only reason she attends the shoe meetings is to escape the chaos that she calls home. Harbison does a fine job in creating vivid, convincing characters showing how each woman is trapped and how they deal with it both individually and as a group.

I’ve read more books than my bookshelf can hold and I can honestly say that you will be hooked on Shoe Addicts Anonymous like you are hooked on your favorite shoe store. You will identify closely with at least one of the four characters. You will follow each of them through their lives laughing and empathizing with them on their day to day struggles and yes even through the shoe addicts anonymous meetings. I guarantee you will laugh, connect and most likely adopt a shoe addiction, with this feel-good all-over book. If you haven’t gotten a copy of this book what are you waiting for? Put on your feel good shoes and run to the book store and oh yes please do stop by the shoe store; you may find another treasure there.

Happy Reading

Sarah