Saturday, February 13, 2010

'Tis The Season


Lorna Landvik wrote this book in an epistolary, ephistleatory, in a letter writing fashion. E-mails and letters make up the story. Most of the correspondence is between a broken heiress(much like Paris Hilton) named Caroline, her former nanny-Astrid, her former foster father/cattle rancher - Cyril, and a cynical paparazzi writer called The Buzz. The books starts out with Caroline writing an apology letter that is SO NOT an apology that I had to laugh out loud. She starts out with "Dear Everyone I Have Supposedly Ever Hurt." Caroline is a pistol even as she softens, sobers, grows up, heals, and becomes a much nicer person. The story ends around Christmas but you don't have to wait until Christmas to read it. This book can be finished in one pleasant, snowy afternoon.

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