RAINY DAY EXCERPTS: “SISTERS LIKE US”

Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, First Chapter/Intros, originally hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea and now hosted by I’d Rather Be at the Beach; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.

Today’s feature is a library book I’m about to read:  Sisters Like Us, by Susan Mallery,  a delightful look at sisters, mothers and daughters in today’s fast-paced world, told with Susan Mallery’s trademark warmth and humor.

 

 

Intro:  There wasn’t a holiday on the calendar that Harper Szymanski couldn’t celebrate, cook for, decorate, decoupage, create a greeting card about or wrap in raffia.  There were the biggies:  birthdays, New Years,  Fourth of July.  But also the lesser celebrated:  American Diabetes Association Alert Day, Auntie’s Day, National Massage Therapy Awareness Week.  Why weren’t there greeting cards to honor that?  Didn’t everyone need a good massage?

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Teaser:  She grinned.  “Please don’t tell me you know someone who could take out the bride.  I might not be happy about the way Terence has acted, but I don’t want to do her harm.” (57%).

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Synopsis:  Divorce left Harper Szymanski with a name no one can spell, a house she can’t afford and a teenage daughter who’s pulling away. With her fledgling virtual-assistant business, she’s scrambling to maintain her overbearing mother’s ridiculous Susie Homemaker standards and still pay the bills, thanks to clients like Lucas, the annoying playboy cop who claims he hangs around for Harper’s fresh-baked cookies.

Spending half her life in school hasn’t prepared Dr. Stacey Bloom for her most daunting challenge—motherhood. She didn’t inherit the nurturing gene like Harper and is in deep denial that a baby is coming. Worse, her mother will be horrified to learn that Stacey’s husband plans to be a stay-at-home dad…assuming Stacey can first find the courage to tell Mom she’s already six months pregnant.

Separately they may be a mess, but together Harper and Stacey can survive anything—their indomitable mother, overwhelming maternity stores and ex’s weddings.

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What do you think?  Would you keep reading?

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