The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman was a New York Times Best Seller a few years ago. A novel that weaves the stories of three generations of women together and to their family history, it takes a c…
Ties That Bind is the fifth Cobbled Court Quilts novel. It is recommended that readers read the previous four books as they provide the background on the supporting characters, but the book…
It is always fascinating to go to the origination point of literary characters that have become ubiquitous and iconic to a culture. Sometimes the current cultural perception is leagues away from…
It seems we are all familiar with the mean-spirited Mr. Scrooge. But what of his equally awful partner, Jacob Marley? In this tale, author R. William Bennett supposes Marley had more to do with Scroog…
After reading Kimberley Griffiths Little's wonderful novel, The Healing Spell, earlier this year, I was excited to get my hands on a copy of Circle of Secrets. The story did not disappoint! …
Liar & Spy, Rebecca Stead's third novel, is completely different from her first two books, but the writing is just as good as When You Reach Me. The dialogue is snappy and the interchanges are of…
Author Tyler Whitesides takes the janitorial concept so over the top that it becomes awesome! Completely unfettering the imagination to the border of absurd really works for this series. A…
Almost all books use life and death to help people find deeper meaning in life. The same is true of this story. What was especially pleasurable was the phraseology of the author. &nbs…
Watt Key's FOURMILE will remind readers of Jack Schaefer's SHANE but there are enough differences that this novel will stand on its own. The time period and setting are different; this allows for expl…
Not sure whether to smack the main character upside the head or cheer for her. It seemed the character Eva Black was either getting walked all over, or she was getting a spine and standing up fo…
A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle is a short book that sweetly explores the connections among four generations of women in a family. It jumps among the characters in time and in perspective. It a…
Brie's voice in The Catastrophic History of You and Me is so alive the reader almost forgets that Brie is really dead and that she is just a character in a book. Wasting no time, autho…
