Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Olivia Dade’s debut romantic comedy, Spoiler Alert, is based in the world of fanfiction. Although it was sometimes difficult to understand some of the fanfiction, the two main characters and the story itself were delightful. For seven years, Marcus Caster-Rupp has...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! If you have all five the subjects in the picture above, you have extra reasons to be thankful this year. I know I do. Despite 2020 and the travel I missed, I consider myself fortunate. I still have my health. I hope none of us reading...

What Are You Reading?

Welcome back, everyone! I missed all of you. I missed catching up with your lives and your reading. I hope everyone finds the blog, and finds it easy to use. Even though it’s Wednesday, we’re going to do “What Are You Reading?” If you don’t get around to it until...

And, We’re Back!

And, we’re back! New address, but my wonderful friend was able to automatically send you to the new site. It’s now https://lesasbookcritiques.com, with no blogspot in the address. It doesn’t hurt to change the address, though, if you have it bookmarked. Once I get the...

Where I Come From by Rick Bragg

If you read Southern Living, you’ve probably read most of the essays in Rick Bragg’s book Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South. I’m not from the South. I’m not from the mill towns and hills and country that Bragg describes with so...