Book Review: The Giver of Stars
If you are looking for a new author, I recommend Jojo Moyes. I’ve read several of her books recently, and The Giver of Stars is the most compelling. It is […]
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Book Review: Dreamland
Today I’m breaking my policy of never writing a negative review of a book. Yes, Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks was that bad. I’ve been a Sparks fan for decades, but […]
Book Review: The Shadow Box
Wow! Y’all know that I seriously have to love a book to come out of retirement to write a review. It is another superb recommendation from retired librarian extraordinaire Susan […]
Book Review: The Tobacco Wives
It’s rare that I give a book five stars. The Tobacco Wives is Adele Myers‘ debut novel, and I read it cover-to-cover yesterday. The way Ms. Myers wove together disparate […]
Book Review: Second Chance Christmas
Second Chance Christmas by Lori Wilde is another superb recommendation from retired librarian extraordinaire Susan Chatfield Griswold. Isabella is fourteen and a new mother of a baby boy. Her beloved […]
Book Review: The Wedding Veil
The Wedding Veil by Kristy Woodson Harvey is the most charming book I’ve read in a long time. I was introduced to her books by retired librarian extraordinaire Susan Chatfield […]
Book Review: The Judge’s List
What would bring me out of retirement? John Grisham‘s sequel to The Whistler: The Judge’s List. Judge Ross Bannick was a patient stalker with a fondness for double clove hitch […]
Book Review: Before We Were Strangers
What happened to Clara McBride? This is the central question in Brenda Novak‘s riveting Before We Were Strangers. When she was just five years old, her daughter Sloane overheard her parents’ […]
Book Review: Obama
After watching a PBS documentary about White House photographer Pete Souza, I very much wanted to see his photos in Obama: An Intimate Portrait. This coffee table book sells for less than […]
Book Review: Disloyal
I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them. – Michael Cohen In Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to […]
Anne Caroline Drake 