75. Immediate Family

It's mid September and I've now reached the number of books I read in the entire year last year. Oh my... anyway, this was a good one. Kinda surprising yet kinda predictable, but overall a good read.

Here's a review from B&N.com that totally agrees with my feelings on the book: Fifteen years after graduation, four close college friends are dealing with family and romantic relationship issues. Entertainment news reporter Stevie is afraid to commit to Ryan, a documentary filmmaker who's crazy about her but is rapidly losing patience (her life only becomes more complicated when her hippie mother reveals that her father is a Seventies rock star believed to have been involved in an act of violence years earlier). Emerson is a publicist and divorced mom who falls for someone "unacceptable" in her dying-and still meddling-mother's social circle. Literary agent Franny has the proverbial ticking biological clock. And advertising executive Jay is married to the gorgeous and pregnant Vivienne, whose unorthodox suggestion will change her, Jay's, and Franny's lives forever. Goudge's (Otherwise Engaged) novel starts out with a bang and remains compelling thanks to the four interesting main characters and a few genuine surprises, but other developments are not so surprising.