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The Widowhood │Sometimes You Get Things Back
One of the things I had to give up when my husband died was the publishing contract that I had on my middle grade/high school fantasy novel that I had worked so hard on and was so excited to see coming to print. It was a gutting decision, but one that I ha to make…
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BOOK REVIEW│The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
Motherhood in the suburbs is an adventure unto itself. Social systems are constructed on your children’s achievements, your helpfulness in your community and your popularity among your fellow soccer moms. It can be a boring existence and it can be one that is easily shattered when you step out of the Stepford Wives Club. For…
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Book Review│A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan
Lea Mortimer specializes in restoring French Chateaus into boutique hotels. She relishes in the fact that she is a single, untethered woman who excels at her job and works well with the often aristocratic families that she often finds herself working for. Only this summer is shaping up to be a little different for Lea.…
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BOOK REVIEW│ATTRIBUTION BY LINDA MOORE
The early 2000’s was a great time for art history books. Of course there was Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code but you also had Tracey Chevalier writing Girl with a Pearl Earring and several other art historical novels. I couldn’t put those books down and in many ways, they helped to further my passion for…
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Book Review│Batten Down the Belfry by Diane Kelly
Whitney Whitaker and her cousin, Buck, are back at it flipping houses in this fourth installment of Kelly’s house-flipper mysteries. This time they have their eyes set on an old church. Whitney is drawn to the abandoned church with its beautiful stained glass and is eager to make the abandoned space come alive again. They…
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Book Review│The Island House by Amanda Brittany
Get ready to be immersed in a atmospheric, Gothic-esque tale of a young girl who is struggling to remember the early years of her life and the lives of two siblings, Verity and Hugh, living in their strange island home with their ventriloquist/magician father who has hired a trail of nannies to care for them,…
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Book Review: Our Trespasses by Michael Cordell
I had the pleasure of reviewing Michael Cordell’s first novel, Contempt, earlier this year. I was excited to receive this new galley not only because I had enjoyed his earlier book, but also because it was a paranormal thriller and it’s just the perfect time of year for that kind of read. Cordell spends the…
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Book Review │Peter Green and the Unliving Academy by Angelina Allsop
“Fourteen-year-old Peter Green woke up knowing only three things: the proper way to put on a tie, that lemon custard was disgusting, and that he was dead.” Peter has died and he has no memory of it or his life before his untimely death. He has found himself with a ticket to a special school…
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Book Review│The Lights of Sugarberry Cove
As a teacher who has survived virtual school and as a real estate professional who navigated her own buy/sell in this crazy housing market, I can safely say I am tired. I am looking forward to a simple summer with my kids and a very long break from teaching. I am also looking forward to…
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Book Review│Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
Although a fictional recreation, Miss Austen gives us an explanation as to a question that have puzzled Austen academics for years: why did her younger sister burn all of her letters after her death? Hornby creates for us a believable adventure that centers around these letters and the life of Jane’s sister, Cassandra. We are…
