Status Updates From Dirty Sexy Knitting (Malibu...

Ehhh… this one is not really grabbing me. Which sucks, because the name is awesome and the synopsis sounded cool.

"Where does family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl—no superior alternative has yet been found. —Winston Churchill" (200) welllll cool homophobic quote to include as a chapter header

"'I'll do my best, Froot Loop,' he promised.

'You know how much I hate when you call me that.' She frowned. …

'C'mon. Sweet and juicy? What's not to like?" (152) have...have you ever had a Froot Loop??? Sweet, yes. Juicy ... ?????

"'How the hell could Edward already know about the fire?'

She pushed his hand away from her mouth. 'I don't know,' she said ... 'He surfs the Net all the time,' she said." (148-149) surfs the Net??? how was this published in 2009 and not 1999

"'You're telling me I'm too old for hip-huggers,' the customer said, an expression of dismay on her face.

'Yes. … Hip-huggers with a two-and-a-half-inch zipper, that is,' she clarified. 'Leave those to the woman who never get to taste ice cream. Let them at least have something.'" (65-66)

"... he'd gone ahead and seduced Cassandra, who had been on a self-selected celibacy kick as long as he'd known her.

It was the only thing that had stopped him from refusing to let her leave the house that night she'd worn the tight dress and the new perfume." (27) oh how forbearing of him to allow her to leave her own house

"call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are you need one. –Jane Howard." (1) well using the word tribe like that is one way to start this (admittedly of the time it was published)