The Stacks in Jen’s Life

Our much missed and absolute favorite book reviewer is back – hooray! Jen returns with a review with a difference … rather than one book she considers her stacks. Hay stacks? Chimney stacks? Wrong and wrong again … curious?

This is so weird for me—this feeling of being literally unable to even remember a book that I have read when I sit down to review it for you.

I have read tons and tons and tons lately, but I can’t seem to tell you what any of them were about.

Maybe just telling you what I am reading can count as a review? A little blathering about my stacks?

Excellent choice, thank you.

The downstairs stack is as follows.

I am reading Putt To Death by Roberta Isleib.I just finished Six Strokes Under by the same woman and will read A Buried Lie next. If you like golf, all are good.Then Carl Hiassen’s The Downhill Lie.

I am also staring at The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickenson and Closing Timeby Joe Queenan.Next up is Born Round by NYT food critic, Frank Bruni.Geraldine Brooks, March and People of The Book will be shortly thereafter.

Committed by Liz Gilbert sounds good, but I’m not in a “committed” mood at the moment.

Maybe someone has a book about beating something to death with a pan? Kidding. Ignore that.

As you certainly deserve more than this mindless drivel, I will try hard to pay attention.Truly truly. I won’t bore you but a little family drama goes a long way, even for your fearless book reviewer. It renders me mindless, but sadly, not speechless, which is an unfortunate combination.

Hopefully next week I can elaborate more, but if not, I’ll tell you about the upstairs stacks …

Jennifer Petty Mann grew up in New York City, moved to London, England, then back to Boston, and is now happily ensconced on the EightMile river in Lyme with three little ones. A former teacher, window dresser for Saks, and designer, she is taking her love of books to the proverbial “street.”