Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
What are you reading this week? Or, what book are you listening to? I’ve taken a page out of Jeff’s book. I’m reading an anthology, Snowdrift and Other Stories by Georgette Heyer. It includes three recently discovered short stories. I always...
Waking Up in Winter by Cheryl Richardson
I’ll admit I picked up Cheryl Richardson’s personal development book, Waking Up in Winter because of the subtitle. She calls it “In Search of What Really Matters at Midlife.” I always discover something when I read a self-development book....
Have You Heard? Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger
I’m always grateful when Sandie Herron steps in with a review of an audiobook. It gives me one day to finish whatever I’m reading. And, she reviews audiobooks, which I don’t listen to. I know many of you do, so it’s one more chance for you...
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
If you’re getting tired of my reviews of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London books, you’ll be happy to know I only have one more after Foxglove Summer. But, this fifth one was one of the best in the series. Police constable Peter Grant...
Vanishing Ireland by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury
Vanishing Ireland is a beautiful, but sobering book. Fennell and Bunbury set out across Ireland to capture and preserve the stories of ordinary Irish people, people who worked the land, worked with horses, worked on the water, celebrated the music. Vanishing...
What Can I Bring? Southern Food for Any Occasion Life Serves Up by Elizabeth Heiskell
I was raised in Ohio. Just as in the South, when someone dies, just returns from the hospital, has problems, we take food to the house. It may not be the Southern recipes from this book, but I was eager to read Elizabeth Heiskell’s cookbook, What Can I...