Book Review: "My Own Personal Soap Opera" by Libby Malin
Frankie McNally has found the perfect solution for life’s perplexing problems: as head writer for the daytime soap Lust for Life, she works them out on the air! Meanwhile, Frankie’s being courted simultaneously by the dashing older man sent in to save the show’s sagging ratings and by the soap’s totally hot leading man. And just when Frankie thinks the plot couldn’t get more complicated, a jewel thief starts copying the show’s storyline-a development that could send the show’s ratings soaring, if it doesn’t get Frankie arrested first... So here's a little secret about me: when my sisters and I were kids, my mom got us hooked onto All My Children. She claims she was watching it because she had nothing else to do during the day plus it would help her with her English. Meanwhile we got addicted into watching it for several years and kept it a secret from our dad who didn't approve of soap operas. Even now, my husband and his dad secretly watch The Young and The Restless when they...