I have a favorite blogger. I first discovered her on a lark when she wrote a parenting blog for Parents.com or something (and I was like, 19, and in no way interested in having kids, so who knows why I was there), and I followed her when that blog ended and she moved to a private blog. It's kind of funny because I've never met her and rarely even post a comment to her blogs, but I feel like I know her because her son wasn't even a year when I started reading, and now he is 4 years old with a sister. She is a hilarious writer too and my poor friends, mother and former fiance had to suffer with me as I read passages aloud from her blog.

Anyway, I bring her up because she recently recommended a book: What We Have by Amy Boesky. It is a memoir, so I was immediately interested. I found it at the library last week(I love our Spokane County library, they are so well stocked!) and just finished it last night. It is the story of a woman who has lived her life in fear of ovarian cancer. Every other woman in her family has died of the disease before the age of 50, and she and her two sisters have always known it was coming. It's a wonderfully-flowing book that follows her life and family interactions and how the big cancer target has altered who they are. It is well-structured and I often forgot I was reading a memoir, because it moves like a novel. I felt like I knew her at the end of the book and was rooting for her family to beat the cancer curse. Anyway, this review is sounding like I copied it from Emily's review, because she loves memoirs too, but if anyone is looking for an engaging read, "What We Have" is it.