Rating: 
Summary: Remarkable, readable book
Review: No kidding here: I picked this book up at a bookstore near the hospital where my dad is receiving cancer therapy, mainly because I could could not concentrate to do anything else but read. I bought it knowing nothing about it or the author.This book is terrific. It is endlessly funny, and its humor is sometimes slapstick, sometimes twisted and always insigtful. The characters are engaging and the writing reflects a gift on the part of the author - the ability to write cleanly and simply yet with flair. I am contemplating how many copies of High Maintenance to buy for my friends, and am eager to get a copy of Miss Belle's first book. I could not recommend it more highly.
Rating: 
Summary: Strange and stupid...but laughable
Review: This was the strangest and stupidest book I have ever read. Liv (the main character) does not in any way inspire a single woman, or recently divorced woman. Her life after divorcing her husband (Jack) gets more entangled and more ridiculous as you continue to read. I have a hard time putting down a book and not finishing it, and luckily this book did provide some laugh-out-loud moments as you realized just how stupid the story line is. The author seemed to ramble and the story jumped-around between flashbacks and current life entirely too much. I did not care that Liv remembered some strange smell from her childhood while looking at some pothole in front of her, and I did not care about her childhood at all in this story.
I have read worse books, but not many, and will NOT recommend this book to anyone I know.
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