REVIEW: The Summer Country by Lauren Willig is wonderful, fantastic, brilliant. This story was so immersive that it pulled me in and I felt like I was right there, watching everything unfold with both generations. Taking place over about forty years, this story has everything: wealth and slavery, love and romance, betrayal and secrecy. At […]
REVIEW: Karin Slaughter’s books are truly comfort reads for me, blood and guts and all, because I read so many of them throughout my Dad’s long illness over the past couple of years. I adore her ability to punch me in the gut from the very beginning with her grit and gore, her exquisite characterization, […]
REVIEW: I knew I wanted to read Queen Bee when Dorothea Benton Frank’s name was attached. I cannot tell you how much I love her stories and settings. Holly is thirty years old and still living at home with her mother, called the Queen Bee by everyone around because of her personality-she’s loud, a bit rude, […]
REVIEW: Waisted by Randy Susan Meyers is a fascinating read, as it takes a group of women and forces them to confront how badly they want to lose weight. Exactly how far they are willing to go. Seven women meet at what they think is a secluded resort in Vermont for a weight loss retreat, […]
Review: Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini features four women as well as their families and their significant others as they resist Hitler and the Nazis from the inside. Mildred is an American educator living in Germany with her German husband; Sara is a German Jew and one of Mildred’s students; Greta is a German writer […]
Review: I just love Southern authors and Southern settings, and there is specifically something about the work of Dorothea Benton Frank that makes me very excited. She writes the Lowcountry and just really nails it. I love how she represents the people of the South and the traditions, the food and the way we speak […]
Review: Sometimes it seems like there are a ton of World War II books out there, so I’m a bit selective when I choose which ones I want to read. The Daughter’s Tale by Armando Lucas Correa stood out to me because of the cover (so pretty!) and because it featured a family fractured by […]
REVIEW: I think I will always fall for a grumpy guy that meets his match in a happy, upbeat gal. I love love love it, and The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker was a really good example of one of these stories. Griff is a theater critic; Freddy is a London stage actor. What is […]
Review: I picked Low Country Hero by Lee Tobin McClain because of the coastal South Carolina setting and the RaeAnne Thayne quote on one of the covers! Low Country Hero takes place in the small, close-knit community of Safe Haven, SC where the neighbors always seem willing to pitch in and lend a hand to […]
Review: I sat down with The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick while my husband was doing some work over the weekend and just blew through it. It was so easy to get lost in this story because it is so heartwarming and the characters are so charming. I was pulling for Martha […]