Summer List

Beach Read: Thumbs Up
While on our vacation, I had a hard time getting into the books that I had brought with me. KB tore through Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin so she lent it to me and then I tore through it as well!

The narrator is Ellen who seems to have the perfect life. She was born and raised in Pittsburgh but now lives in New York with her loving, wealthy husband and has a successful career in photography. After Ellen bumps into an ex boyfriend on the streets of New York she starts to wonder about her life and, "What if...." She goes back and forth from the present to the past telling her story. It kind of reads like a mystery, you want to know what's going to happen next and wonder what she is going to do! It was the perfect read for a beach vacation!

Here's Amazon.com's description:
"Do you ever really get over your first love? Emily Griffin, the author of Something Borrowed and Something Blue, has written an unforgettable story about Ellen Graham and the conflicting love she has for her husband Andy and the man she never got over, Leo."

Summer Movie: Thumbs... sideways
The other night Jeremy and I went to see Hancock. It was a good, entertaining movie but I think I would recommend it more as a renter.

There are a few twists in the plot, but none that you can't see coming from a mile away. I was a little disappointed in the ending. I thought it was going to end one way and did kind of think "Hmm, what am I suppose to take away from that?" but it ended a different way and I thought "Well, that's kind of stupid!"

Can I speak in any more general terms right now?? But I don't want to give anything away! It was a new twist on the superhero movie, mildly funny and had a good pace so maybe check it out as a matinée or for a two for one special!