Memories Reflecting in Ruby Red Glass Book

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants crossed with Gilmore Girls and wrapped in a funnel cake of wholesomeness and small town Tennessee charm. While the constant repetition of how much Tandy obviously Lurves that man she broke up with 10 years ago in high school began to grate on my nerves, this book otherwise made my heart feel like a warm muffin slowly rising and brimming over into a tiny mountain of feel-good satisfaction.

I came for the scrapbooking -- an art I admire greatly, though my own efforts consist of very utilitarian and solitary cutting and pasting of clippings and paper ephemera onto plain 3-ring-binder pages with nary a photograph and little writing to be found -- but even though there's a whole lot of dialogue and it sometimes borders on cheesy, I ended up loving everything about this family, the town, and even the town's busybody side characters. And of course, Cooper the Basset Hound! Looking forward to reading the rest of the quartet.