Book Review: Waiting For Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey  @KerryAnn

Waiting for Tom Hanks

by Kerry Winfrey 

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A rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn’t always go according to a script in this delightfully charming and funny novel.

Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing screenplays, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet-cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks—a man who’s sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat—her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight.When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and Annie gets a job on set, it seems like a sign. Then Annie meets the lead actor, Drew Danforth, a cocky prankster who couldn’t be less like Tom Hanks if he tried. Their meet-cute is more of a meet-fail, but soon Annie finds herself sharing some classic rom-com moments with Drew. Her Tom Hanks can’t be an actor who’s leaving town in a matter of days . . . can he?

 

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

 

As usual, he’s wearing a novelty Star Wars T-shirt, because I’m pretty sure he doesn’t own any other kind of shirt. Sometimes Don feels less like my fifty-something uncle and more like a twelve-year-old boy who got a gift card to Hot Topic and went wild.

You’re calling me dramatic? You literally just rubbed your hands together like you’re a bad guy in Scooby-Doo.

“He looks fine… wait, is that sweat?” “Yes. He ran here.” Nick looks at me in shock. “That’s what that smell is? Thank God. I thought the sewage pipe backed up again.”

Did I even make my bed today? Is there underwear on the floor? I’m not in the habit of leaving any clothing on the floor, but I’m sure this is the one time that all my underwear flung itself out of the drawers and onto the floor for the express purpose of embarrassing me in front of Drew.

My Review:

 

This cleverly paced little tale was slyly comical and perceptively humorous and laced together with a cast of authentic characters who were endearingly odd and more than a bit eccentric. I enjoy Ms. Winfrey’s amusing wit and deft word skills. Her storylines were as entertaining as her unusual yet curiously appealing characters. I’ll never look at internet content written for hemorrhoid cream the same again, I had never stopped to consider that it is actually someone’s job to create these snippets, or what would drive them to do so.

 

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Kerry Winfrey grew up in Bellville, Ohio, where she spent most of her time reading inappropriate books at the library. Not much has changed. Kerry writes for HelloGiggles. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, their son, and their dog, Merlin. Love and Other Alien Experiences was her first novel.