Emily Giffin

What Janine is Reading — August 2012

What Janine is Reading — August 2012

Last month was a busy month for me and therefore I didn’t read as much as I usually do. Here’s what was on my plate in August, reading-wise: Spice and Smoke by Suleikha Snyder Set in the world of Bollywood cinema, Spice and Smoke is comprised of two connected novellas. “Bombay Dreams” is the story(…)

REVIEW:  Where We Belong by Emily Giffin

REVIEW: Where We Belong by Emily Giffin

Dear Ms. Giffin, Decades ago, when I was a teen, I read a wonderful book by Lois Lowry called Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye. The book chronicled the teenaged Natalie’s search for her birth mother, her meeting with the woman who gave birth to her and gave her up for adoption, and ended with Natalie’s(…)

REVIEW: Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin

Dear Ms. Giffin, Exactly one hundred days to her marriage to her husband Andy, Ellen Graham literally crosses paths with her ex-boyfriend Leo. Ellen describes their encounter this way: From the outside, say if you were a cabdriver watching frantic jaywalkers scramble to cross the street in the final seconds before the light changed, it(…)