Nookietown
A Novel

After leaving her failed marriage the last thing forty something Lucy wants is to get married again but being two years since her divorce she misses physical contact. When out to lunch with some of her married friends the subject of sex is brought up with some joking around about how their husbands......more

I really don't know what to say about this book. It was bizarre and implausible, but I was hoping to be able to suspend disbelief and read some interesting social commentary about marriage and divorce and monogamy and sexual health. There were some kernels of that, but they just didn't pop (yeah, le......more

My first instinct was to give “Nookietown” two stars, but then I reconsidered because there is a strong possibility that this is a case of “it’s not you, it’s me” book syndrome. I requested it because the plot seemed like a fun and easy read. It was an easy read in the traditional sense of the phrase......more

This book was too full of stereotypes and cliches for me--all married sex is boring, all wives are too tired/busy for sex with their husbands, all husbands are undersexed and will sleep with any available woman, and all divorcees don't want a relationship and will have unemotional sex with any avail......more

The cover was the greatest thing about this book; the story line was just too implausible, even Hollywood would have a hard time making this believable. Basically this super-over-the-top-horny-divorced-mom is dying to get laid. She has decided that there are no men in their forties that are safe, st......more