Reviews + Articles

What Are You Reading?

How are you? Did you survive last week? I hope you're doing okay. I'm always willing to listen.Here's the other question. What are you reading? I'm reading Rick Bragg's new collection, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South. Rick Bragg and Craig...

Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Pushcart Prize-winning poet Maggie Smith is the kind of book that's difficult to review, but important to share. It might just call out to one or two people who really need this book. It's a collection of notes...

Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine Heath

I haven't yet read the previous five books in Lorraine Heath's Sins for All Seasons historical romance series. However, I will read them because I fell in love with the Trewlove siblings. Of course, I started with Beauty Tempts the Beast because the...

Without a Brew by Ellie Alexander

I've mentioned before, I have no interest in beer or beer-making, but Ellie Alexander's Sloan Krause mystery series is still interesting and entertaining. Although the fourth in the series, Without a Brew, has some information about craft beer brewing,...

A Quote

"Go easy on yourself today. If you feel a little weary, a little ragged, that's okay; that's how soul hangovers feel. This will pass." - Maggie Smith, Keep...

Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich

I hadn't read one of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books in nine years. Because the book flap teased readers saying, "She could finally be forced to choose between the two most important men in her life, Joe Morelli and Ranger", I was hopeful for Fortune...