REVIEW: When I first saw the advanced copies for The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash being circulated months ago, I got so excited. His books are among my very-favorites. His stories are always so layered and his characters sometimes seem so straightforward but they’re actually really complex. And I love the way they’re set in […]
Review: I almost don’t know where to begin with this one because I loved it so much. Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb begins in 1968 with Thomas Harding traveling back to Paris for his last Christmas (no spoiler there, see title) with a bundle of letters, a nurse, and failing […]
REVIEW: I can’t count the number of times that I’ve read the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Last year, I spent hours at Laura Ingalls Wilder’s home in Mansfield, Missouri and cried when I saw Pa’s famous fiddle. I couldn’t help it. The Little House stories are the ultimate in comfort reads for […]
Review: I completely loved The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper. In some ways, it was very much like I was expecting, being a book about the “other” woman “behind” someone very famous – I adore those books. In other ways, it surpassed my expectations. I knew going into it that I was getting a story […]
REVIEW: The Dress in the Window by Sofia Grant is the story of Jeanne, Peggy, and Thelma who are all trying to make their way in the late 1940’s in post-World War II Pennsylvania. Each of these women has lost someone that they loved during wartime. Jeanne and Peggy are sisters that live with Thelma, Peggy’s […]
Review: I thought I would be able to breeze through Monticello by Sally Cabot Gunning since I know a little bit about this part of history and because I love historical fiction so much, but I really had to take my time with this one. It’s so layered and detailed. But I love books like this […]
REVIEW: It’s 1870. Captain Kidd travels around Texas and the surrounding territories, reading to townspeople from the newspapers. On a stop in Wichita Falls, Captain is offered a job escorting a 10-year-old orphan girl down to the San Antonio area to live with her aunt and uncle. Four years before, the girl had been captured by […]
REVIEW: When I saw the cover for The Beach at Painter’s Cove by Shelley Noble and that it was set in a town on the shore, I knew that I wanted to read it. The fact that there were multiple generations of women in the same family coming to their family beach mansion sealed the deal for me. I […]
Why I Read It: It’s still only May and I’ve already read some great warm-weather reads this year! I loved the cover on this book and the fact that it is set in the Lowcountry. I love books set in the Carolinas plus I’ve been wanting to reading something by Dorothea Benton Frank for ages now, […]
Why I Read It: I’m a sucker for reading beach-themed books in the warm weather. Or books with a beach on the cover. Or books that have a setting by the shore. When I was presented with the opportunity to read this book, the cover and title drew me in. Plus this is a series […]