Reviews + Articles
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
It seems as if I've been talking about and anticipating Vinegar Girl for months now. The Hogarth Shakespeare project has today's bestselling novelists writing modern retellings of Shakespeare's works. Anne Tyler took on one of my favorite plays,The Taming of the...
This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick
I don't know when a nonfiction book has hit so close to home for me. Perhaps it's because I'm a "Mover", one of those people who pack up and move for one reason or another. For me, it has been jobs - in Upper Arlington, Ohio; Huron, Ohio; Port Charlotte, Florida;...
Mystic Summer by Hannah McKinnon
Are you familiar with the term "new adults"? It refers to twenty-somethings, on their own, making major life decisions. Hannah McKinnon's Mystic Summer is definitely for that audience. Maggie Griffin is perfectly happy with her life in Boston. She teaches at a...
Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts
A Sorcerer, a traveler through space and time, an immortal, a mermaid, a seer, and a lycan (a werewolf). If I added, all walk into a room, it would sound like a joke. Instead, it's the team that comes together to defeat the darkness and find three stars in Nora...
Written Off by E.J. Copperman
How many of you are old enough to remember Remington Steele? The Remington Steele Detective Agency was actually owned by a woman, but, because the TV show started in 1982, she needed a man's name, and a man as a frontman. She ended up working with a man who...
Winners and Laura Bradford Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Carol M. from Monroeville, PA won Con Lehane's Murder at the 42nd Street Library. I'm sending Elaine Viets' Checked Out to Deanna S. from Lexington, KY. When Laura Bradford was here on release day, I...