On Spine of Death by Tamara Berry

If you enjoyed the humor of Tamara Berry’s Buried in a Good Book, you might want to catch up with the adventures of that quirky cast in On Spine of Death. Thriller writer Tess Harrow and her fifteen-year-old daughter Gretchen are digging themselves into the life...

Winners & What Are You Reading?

First, before we start talking about books and what we’re reading, I want to congratulate the winners of the last contest of 2022. Both copies of Santa’s Little Yelpers are heading to Illinois. Carrie C. from Orland Park and Diane K. from Darien are the...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Although I used this several years ago on my Facebook page, it really does define Thanksgiving to me. It’s a time to gather together with family and friends, if possible, and be thankful for the blessings bestowed on us. Although in the U.S., we associate...

Royal Valentine by Jenn McKinlay

Can you tell I really only had time to read a couple novellas this week? But, Jenn McKinlay’s Museum of Literature books fit the bill. In fact, the first in the series, Royal Valentine, was even better than the second. It’s hard to beat a romance with New...

The Attraction Distraction by Jenn McKinlay

Let’s start the review of Jenn McKinlay’s romcom, The Attraction Distraction, by saying that cover has absolutely nothing to do with the storyline, except there’s a man and a woman in the book. There are serious Classics scholars on a hunt for a...