Reviews + Articles
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...
Winners & Another Christmas Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Silent Bite will go to Marie R. from Horeseheads, NY. Nancy H. of Dodgeville, WI will receive The Christmas Card Crime. The books will go out in the mail today. I have two more Christmas mysteries to give...
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...
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...
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...
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...