Every book isn’t appropriate to read online and Lonely Planet’s The Travel Book is a perfect example. This exquisitely photographed coffee table book belongs in the […]
Do Fairy Tales Ever Come True?
Reading Samantha Verant’s How to Make a French Family: Love, Food and Faux Pas may convince you that fairy tales can come true! While attending […]
My Absolute Darling: Difficult to Read, Impossible to Put Down
Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel, My Absolute Darling, the story of a man and his 14-year-old daughter living in the wild woods of Mendocino County, California, […]
Tangerine-Captivating: The book, the characters, the locale
Tangerine, the debut novel written by British author Christine Mangan, won’t be published until the end of March, but reserve it at your library right […]
17 Titles I loved in 2017(Plus 2)
Another year is over, and, as usual, there were so many good books to read! Here is a sampling of what I really enjoyed. There […]
Enjoy Some Unreliable Narrators, Psychopaths & Sociopaths Over the Holidays
The publishing industry knows when they have a good hook, and, these days, narcissists, psychopaths, sociopaths and unreliable narrators are still pulling in the money. […]
My 16 Favorite Books of 2016, and, of Course, a Few More!
2016 has almost ended and it’s time to share my most memorable books from the past 12 months. It’s always hard to whittle down the […]
A Disaster of a Vacation
What surprised me about Delia Ephron’s novel, Siracusa, is that I loved despising all the characters, even the little girl. Typically, if I don’t like […]
An Uplifting and Beautiful Turning Lemons Into Lemonade Memoir
Martha’s Vineyard, Island of Dreams by Susan Branch is a charming, original memoir relaying the author’s story of running away from California after her marriage collapses. Arriving […]