All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, (Paperback)

from mtchrista

Just not my cup of tea. One thing that kept popping into my head while reading "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" was that prior to reading it I remembered it being referred to as a great beach book or great summer read. To me that usually brings to mind a light heart feel good storyline or if t...

from nyiper

I'm not sure what I expected but once I'm "into"a book I have a hard time not finishing it. The actual writing was good---you really could mentally visualize everything Brown described and you could feel the emotional upheaval of each of the family members. But it was almost too much soap opera a...

from sonyau

Entertaining book that melds the socio-comic with a critique on our money-driven, sex-obsessed culture. The characters end up likable. However, three's the best I can do for a novel I enjoyed but would never re-read. Fits right in with the slew of books deconstructing the upper-middle and/or acad...

from LyndaInOregon

Despite the fact that the cover blurbs promise "a razor-sharp critique of the absurd expectations" of modern affluence, this is merely a story of three women who each loses something of value and has to figure out whether it was really worth all that much to begin with.Janice loses her husband of...

from sonam_soni

Set in Silicon Valley with IPO's, Drugs, Family issues, etc. I had read a review on this in the newspaper and it was engaging enough for me to finish it but somewhat formulaic.