Happy Summer! Once again, it’s July and I have yet to make it to the beach. I hope you find time this month to take one of the following books to the beach with you: I’ve Got Sand in All the Wrong Places by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella (available 07/12/16)* Maggie Dove: A Mystery…
Dear Bookworms, One of my favorite things about reading is how it communicates ideas and allows those thoughts to be shared across boundaries. A written work can be discovered by two people living in different parts of the world, who have entirely different tastes, backgrounds and life experiences, but both of whom will stumble across…
In her latest novel, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, (one of our May picks) Lydia Millet provides a first-person account of a mother (Anna) and daughter (Lena) on the run from an unfaithful, uninterested husband. However, this is no ordinary “run-away-with-child-from-bad-husband” kind of story. No, Millet added another layer. Shortly after Lena was born, Anna began…
Dear Bookworms, Picking up fourteen years since we last adventured with literary detective Thursday Next, First Among Sequels finds our beloved heroine a bit older but no less embroiled in the complicated issues of real-world and BookWorld literature. Her role as the Last Bastion of Common Sense within the BookWorld’s Council of Genres, means…
May tends to be one of the busiest months of the year – graduations, weddings, confirmations, birthdays, etc. Find time this month to sneak away to your favorite outdoor reading spot to read one of our May picks! Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet (available 05/03/16) ‘Tis Herself by Maureen O’Hara (published in 2004)…
When I started reading Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key (one of our April Picks) I did not know what the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup was. It may have been mentioned in a history class at one time or another, but I do not remember studying it. For those of you who (like me) do not remember…
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson (one of our March Picks) proved to be a delightful piece of historical fiction set during a time of transition in a coastal town in England. Goodreads offers the following summary: East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that…
I will hold myself to a standard of Grace, not Perfection. – Emily Ley It’s no secret that I love Emily Ley. Her spirit, her products, her brand – the whole package. I’m so excited for her new book to be coming out – GRACE, NOT PERFECTION: embracing SIMPLICITY, celebrating JOY. The official book blurb: Somewhere…
Dear Bookworms, True to her reputation as a gifted writer of suspenseful series, Terri Blackstock has just released another thrilling start in her latest book If I Run. The story follows Casey Cox, a young woman alone and desperate, running from the consequences of a crime she didn’t commit. I will leave you to discover…
Paris seems to be one of those cities that appears on everyone’s bucket list. Images of the Eiffel Tower ignite the desire to travel in so many. Paris attracts people for different reasons. For some, it’s the art. For others, it’s the wine. For Kathleen Flinn, author of The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You…