The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady

from gayla.bassham

Much more entertaining than you might expect, given the subject matter. Lots of likable characters. Really, I felt sympathetic toward all the main characters. Really 3 1/2 stars (I didn't care for the ending), but I'm bumping it up a half star because of the frequent mentions of the undergrad alm...

from UnderMyAppleTree

Marylou Ahern wants to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs. Fifty years ago he was in charge of a secret government study that exposed pregnant women to radiation without their knowledge or consent. Marylou thought she was taking vitamins when in fact she was getting much more. The consequences were devastat...

from BillPilgrim

The book cover compares this to Little Miss Sunshine. But, the comparison does not seem that apt to me. It is somewhat alike in that it is about a dysfunctional family and it has good humor that pokes fun at society, but that is about the limit of the similarity. The books deals with rather serio...

from Iambookish

This is yet another time when I wish goodreads would give us the ability to give something a 1/2 star designation. My review would be for 3 1/2 stars instead of 4. This is a book that I absolutely adored when I began reading it, but with 100 pages too many it began to slog along around the 200 pa...

from whitreidtan

I first stumbled across Elizabeth Stuckey-French's novels with Mermaids on the Moon several years ago. I even dragged my children to see the mermaid show fictionalized in the book when we were visiting the area. Quirky kitschy and fun, I was looking forward to something similar with this latest o...