Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
Rain here. Flooding in St. Louis. One hundred degrees in the Pacific Northwest. Whatever your weather, I hope you’re staying safe. And, a good book might take your mind off of the weather. I haven’t started Heather Graham’s Aura of Night yet...
The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie by Rachel Linden
If you’re one of those readers who added your name to a list when I reviewed The Dead Romantics, you might want to watch for The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie. Kaye Wilkinson Barley is seldom wrong when she tells me I’ll love a book, and she was right about...
Something Fishy This Way comes by Gabby Allan
It’s time to go back to Catalina Island with the second fun Whit and Whiskers Mystery by Gabby Allan, Something Fishy This Way Comes. Whitney Dagner, owner of a gift shop on Catalina Island, is hiding a treasure chest on the golf course for a customer when...
The Paper Caper by Kate Carlisle
Kate Carlisle’s publisher, Berkley, has some of the best cover artists in the business, and, whoever they selected to illustrate the cover of The Paper Caper excelled at the job. Because I read an egalley, I can’t give credit to the artist, but I wish I...
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Sometimes, the shortest books are the most difficult to read emotionally. That’s probably one reason Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These won the 2022 Orwell Prize for fiction earlier in the week. I picked up the book when I read an article in...
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
I finally got around to this book after it appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. I’ve had it on my TBR pile for a while. But, I read it earlier this week, and sobbed so much over it that my cat, Josh, climbed into my lap to check on me. Ashley...