<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>2004 Book Reviews @ tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</title><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/</link><description>(2004 Book Reviews) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>2004 Book Reviews @ tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>The year&apos;s books</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_years_books.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_years_books.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fyears%5Fbooks</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here are the adult books I read this year. I've written reviews for most of them now, which can be found in the 2004 Adult Book Reviews category, if you're interested. Red ones are the faves, again. (I just noticed that I started and ended the yea]]></description></item><item><title>Running In Heels: A Novel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/running_in_heels_a_novel.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/running_in_heels_a_novel.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=running%5Fin%5Fheels%5Fa%5Fnovel</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Natalie, a PR person for the Greater London (or something) Ballet, has anorexia. Only she doesn't realize it til her hair starts falling out. It seems like Anna Maxted tries to handle too many chick lit issues with this one - dysfunctional family, b]]></description></item><item><title>Pushing 30</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/pushing_30.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/pushing_30.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pushing%5F30</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I timed this one to read it when I was literally pushing 30, a week before my 30th birthday. Ellie Winters suffers from the typical chick-lit problem of being a &quot;good girl.&quot; She hates her job as a litigation attorney, but felt she had t]]></description></item><item><title>The Stepford Wives</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_stepford_wives.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_stepford_wives.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2004 05:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fstepford%5Fwives</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'd always wanted to read this, but until the movie came out, our library didn't have a copy of the book. It's a super-short book, making me doubt that it was really meant as a novel rather than a screenplay, but apparently it was. It's hard to come]]></description></item><item><title>Citizen Girl</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/citizen_girl.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/citizen_girl.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=citizen%5Fgirl</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Nanny Diaries ladies take on post-university employment. Girl thought she'd find fulfillment working for a non-profit women's group run by Doris, a 70's feminist icon. Doris, sadly, turns out to be quite insane and after putting up with all of h]]></description></item><item><title>Adultery</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/adultery.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/adultery.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=adultery</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A much quicker and more contemporary read than the author's Clara Callan. What a difference a week has made in editor Daniel Fielding's life - a trip to the Frankfurt Book Fair with a young female colleague he doesn't even really like leads to an a]]></description></item><item><title>The Journal of Mortifying Moments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_journal_of_mortifying_moments.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_journal_of_mortifying_moments.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fjournal%5Fof%5Fmortifying%5Fmoments</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The second book I've read this month set in Seattle. Odd. Definitely has all the Chick Lit elements - ditzy, slightly overweight heroine, bad boyfriend, not very helpful friends, annoying mother, crappy job. Our heroine, Kerry Spence, is trying to g]]></description></item><item><title>Pastries: A Novel of Desserts and Discoveries</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/pastries_a_novel_of_desserts_and_discoveries.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/pastries_a_novel_of_desserts_and_discoveries.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pastries%5Fa%5Fnovel%5Fof%5Fdesserts%5Fand%5Fdiscoveries</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An interesting blend of baking, Seattle, and Indian and Japanese culture. 29 year-old Sunya (which means &quot;emptiness&quot; in Sanskrit) Malhotra, owner of the delicious Pastries Cafe, has lost her baking mojo. Abandoned by her father when she wa]]></description></item><item><title>Blessed Are the Cheesemakers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/blessed_are_the_cheesemakers.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/blessed_are_the_cheesemakers.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blessed%5Fare%5Fthe%5Fcheesemakers</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A charming book with one foot solidly in the &quot;the Irish-people-are-mad&quot; camp and the other in the predictable romance genre.&quot; Very special cheese has been made by the Corrigan and Feehan families for generations in Coolarney, County Co]]></description></item><item><title>Little Earthquakes : A Novel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/little_earthquakes__a_novel.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/little_earthquakes__a_novel.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=little%5Fearthquakes%5F%5Fa%5Fnovel</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed Jennifer Weiner's previous books and this one didn't disappoint. At times very funny and at others very sad, this one is an interwoven story of 4 new mothers and the challenges they face. 3 of the women meet at a prenatal yoga cl]]></description></item><item><title>The Cinderella Rules</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_cinderella_rules.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_cinderella_rules.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fcinderella%5Frules</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A vague fairy-tale theme, steamy sex scenes, and predictable romance plot but with fun and wit. I enjoyed the characters, Shane and Darby, who are both forced back into the Washington, DC high society into which they were born against their wills.]]></description></item><item><title>Social Crimes : A Novel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/social_crimes__a_novel.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/social_crimes__a_novel.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=social%5Fcrimes%5F%5Fa%5Fnovel</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a murder mystery that starts with knowing who committed the murder. Jo Slater, second wife of billionaire Lucius Slater, finds herself stricken from the social register when the beautiful, scheming Monique, Countess de Passy seduces Lucius and t]]></description></item><item><title>Monkeewrench</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/monkeewrench.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/monkeewrench.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monkeewrench</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This was my pick for our book club. I'm not a big mystery girl, but I've noticed that librarians are generally huge mystery-readers, so I've been more willing to give them a chance if I find a reason to pick one up (like Cosmo editor Kate White's ser]]></description></item><item><title>Shopaholic &amp; Sister</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/shopaholic__sister.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/shopaholic__sister.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=shopaholic%5F%5Fsister</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another fun romp with Becky Bloomwood, who is always both endearing and exasperating. After a 10-month world tour honeymoon (which results in a lot of ethnic souvenirs being shipped to their apartment) with Luke, the happy couple returns to England t]]></description></item><item><title>Fat Chance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/fat_chance.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/fat_chance.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fat%5Fchance</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Maggie O'Leary writes a very successful newspaper column called Fat Chance, in which she champions the cause of the overweight. She offers medical information, empathy, and fat acceptance. An invitation to Hollywood to work as a consultant with her]]></description></item><item><title>Something Borrowed</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/something_borrowed.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/something_borrowed.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=something%5Fborrowed</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The something borrowed is a fiance. Rachel introduced her best friend Darcy to Dex, her fiance, when Rachel and Dex were in law school. Rachel didn't think he was her type back then, but now she's not so sure. After a drunken kiss on Rachel's 30th bi]]></description></item><item><title>Girl Meets Ape</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/girl_meets_ape.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/girl_meets_ape.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=girl%5Fmeets%5Fape</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another good offering from a Brit Chick Lit staple. Dr. Jennifer Niederhauser, very recent PhD,  is still suffering from the heartbreak of finding the white bottom of her professor/love interest, Timothy Lauder, flashing away as he bonked another]]></description></item><item><title>Spanish Disco</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/spanish_disco.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/spanish_disco.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=spanish%5Fdisco</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the two books I took on our trip to Minneapolis. A good, quick read, not quite as cheery-fluffy as the usual Red Dress books. Cassie Hayes, book editor extraordinaire, is happy with her single workaholic life. She drinks too much, can't funct]]></description></item><item><title>What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/what_was_she_thinking__notes_on_a_scandal_a_novel.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/what_was_she_thinking__notes_on_a_scandal_a_novel.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fwas%5Fshe%5Fthinking%5F%5Fnotes%5Fon%5Fa%5Fscandal%5Fa%5Fnovel</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'd been wanting to read this book for quite a while, but was sadly disappointed. The narrator, spinster schoolteacher Barbara, tells the story of her friend and colleague Sheba Hart's affair with a 15-year old student. She claims to be writing the b]]></description></item><item><title>Devil May Care : A Novel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/devil_may_care__a_novel.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/devil_may_care__a_novel.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=devil%5Fmay%5Fcare%5F%5Fa%5Fnovel</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[He's tall, dark, handsome, wealthy...and he just might be the devil. Sally Carpenter, a struggling actress, can't believe how her fortunes change when she meets Jack Weaver, TV network president. She gets great roles, her biggest professional rival e]]></description></item></channel></rss>