Greetings Treat-A-Weekers,

It’s me writing with a quick post about a scrumptious book that I inhaled over our February break called One Day in December by Josie Silver. Now that we live in the NorthEast, my kids get one week off in December and one week off in February and that makes me positively giddy. Why, you ask? Because February is a cold, bleak month and getting away to somewhere warm, which were able to do this year, was beyond fabulous.

So, I am beginning to think that Reese Witherspoon and I share a brain, because of late, every book her club recommends is my new favorite. This latest Reese’s Book Club recommendation was the perfect, light, romance/drama/comedy to read whilst vacationing (as the Brits would say). One Day in December reminded me of a literary mash up of Bridget Jones’s Diary and Something Borrowed with a dash of One Day. Those first two books are among my all-time favorite leisure reading. Both novels feature underdog, thoroughly relatable female leads in search of love facing serious obstacles on their respective ways to attaining it. In One Day in December, which is charmingly set in contemporary London, the protagonist, Laurie James, spots the man of her dreams sitting on a bench while riding home from work on a double decker red bus. They make significant, soulful eye contact, but the bus drives away before he can get on the bus or she can get off. Laurie spends a year hoping she will run into said man and has just about given up hope when her best friend and flat-mate Sarah introduces the dream man, Jack O’Mara, to her at a Christmas Party. The problem? Jack is the serious boyfriend Sarah’s been seeing for weeks and dying to introduce her best friend to. As one would imagine over the course of the next ten years, this creates an untenable situation for Laurie and Jack, who both have unresolved feelings stemming from their love at first sight bus encounter and subsequently their inevitable friendship. These are dangerous feelings which must be set aside given their shared love for Sarah; otherwise they could destroy all three of them, forever.

As you may have gathered by now, dear reader, I love nothing more than reading or watching a good love triangle. And while the love triangle is an old formula for a story, it’s resolution in One Day in December is fresh, hopeful and had me feeling good by the end of the book. So check it out friends, and let me know if you find it as much of a treat as I did.

Until next time, I remain, very truly yours,

M