Addition, by Toni Jordan

This quirkly little book is a lot of fun. Grace suffers from OCD. She has to count everything. Steps to her coffee shop, number of bananas she buys, and even her silverware.

One day at her coffee shop her regular table isn't available. Her orange cake that she eats everyday with her coffee if not available. What is available is a man named Seamus. The same Seamus who she stole a banana from in the check out line at the grocery store, because she only had 9 & she has to buy 10.

Seamus gradually leads Grace towards a normal life, but when that backfires everything is in danger.

Definitely worth the read!

It Sucked And Then I Cried, by Heather B. Armstrong

Check out me review of this book by blogging legend Dooce, over at Girls With Books.

Hope In A Jar, by Beth Harbison

I wanted to like this book, I really did! There's just not much here to like except for the catchy flashback advertising references.

Ally encounters her boyfriend in bed with another woman & takes Sephora by storm to mend her broken heart. Former best friend Olivia is the beauty editor at a fancy fashion magazine. Ally used to be the hot one, but has gone down hill a bit, and mousy Olivia is now a knock out. Stop me if you've heard this one before.

They meet ackwardly at a class reunion and both learn that they must fight to keep an old friend from making a terrible mistake. I can keep you from making a terrible mistake, don't read this book!

The Wedding Girl, by Madeleine Wickham

Anyone who has read the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, will enjoy this book, by her nom de plume, Madeleine Wickham.

This book about a "good deed" wedding long forgotten about is charming, light and fun. The characters are all well rounded out (with the notable exception of the Godmother), and while there are many different plot lines whirling about in this book, they come together nicely in a way which didn't leave me rolling my eyes, or yelling at the characters.

This is a great read for a rainy day, curled under a quilt with a cup of tea or cocoa.

Fabulous Terrible, by Sophie Talbot

This book is written in 2nd person and the main character is never named. The use of second person was off-putting for me, but I mustered on. A foster child gets a free ride to a super exclusive boarding school. She has visions, or shimmers as she calls them and doesn't understand whether this is a gift of a curse.

Mayhem enuses when a theif starts to frame our narrator and her friends. This whole book in actually a long introduction to a series and the last pages make that clear. I prefer books in a series that are able to stand on their own, but this book has virtually no ending. The Fabulous Terrible leaves you with more questions than answers, and if I had it to do again, I wouldn't waste my time with this book.

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, by Janelle Brown

When Janice's husband Paul walks out on her and their 14 year old daughter, Lizzie, fter making millions in the stock market their lives go haywire. Oldest daughter Margaret comes home to lend support, but is really there to hide her failures. Lizzie starts to equate sex with love & mom Janice starts doing something so crazy that lesser writers wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Honest, shocking and real, this book is one that I couldn't stop reding until I finished it.

M Or F?, by Lisa Papademetriou & Chris Tebbetts

Marcus & Frannie are best of high school friends. Marcus is gay, Frannie is straight and neither of them are having any luck in love. A modern twist on Cyrano Debergerac, Frannie has Marcus be her voice in a chat room with the guy she has a crush on.

When Marcus takes it further than expected, these "brain twins" are at a loss as to how to restore their friendship.

Surprising and fun to read, you really don't see the ending coming and that's one of my favorite things to say about a book.