Book Review: The Sound of Glass
You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad. – Karen White, The Sound of Glass Beachcombers treasure sea glass. Edith Heyward […]
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Book Review: The Marriage of Opposites
Always pay heed to the woman who comes before you. If he’s treated her badly, he will treat you much the same. – Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites This is […]
Book Review: Orphan Train
My great-grandfather, William Van Ardsdale Drake, was a teenager living on a boat on the Hudson River in Manhattan before he was shipped on a Children’s Aid Society orphan train […]
Book Review: The Wright Brothers
If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin […]
Book Review: Starlight on Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs
Susan Wiggs was blessed with great parents: Nick and Lou Klist. Starlight on Willow Lake is dedicated to them, and the book is infused with their unconditional love and wisdom on […]
Book Review: Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?
Bad day? Bad week? Bad month? Bad summer? Bad life? Laughter truly is the best medicine, and I prescribe Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? by the dynamite mother-daughter duo […]
Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird was written and edited after Harper Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman. […]
Book Review: Go Set a Watchman
Nelle Harper Lee was born noticing the content of a person’s character rather than the color of their skin. It wasn’t a welcome attitude in her small hometown in rural […]
Book Review: Grandma Gatewood’s Walk
Why doesn’t HE leave? It’s time to change the conversation on intimate terrorism (domestic violence). Grandma Gatewood would probably slap any DV advocate who dared to call her a victim […]
Book Review: My Father’s Wives
What sort of man divorces five women? – Mike Greenberg, My Father’s Wives Sen. Percival Sweetwater III walked out on his son Jonathan’s ninth birthday and never returned. Shortly before his […]
Anne Caroline Drake 