Reviews + Articles
My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
When Gourmet magazine folded, Ruth Reichl had been editor in chief for ten years. She was lost. She felt as if the magazine had survived for almost seventy years, and folded on her watch. After she finished her book tour duties for the company, she and her husband...
Killer Year: Stories to Die For edited by Lee Child
I don't know if it would have been better to read Killer Year: Stories to Die For... when it originally came out in 2008 or not. With the 2015 paperback release, the author biographies have been updated. We now know what happened with the "Class of 2007". In...
Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber's books are comfort reads, but don't get too comfortable. There are sometimes surprises in her books, as in Silver Linings. Macomber takes readers back to the Rose Harbor Inn in Cedar Cove, Washington, where widow Jo Marie Rose has now owned...
My Southern Journey by Rick Bragg
In a number of essays in this collection, Rick Bragg refers to magic, usually in relation to food, particularly in New Orleans. But, I use that term in relation to his writing. His latest collection is poetry, pure magic. My Southern Journey: True...
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
Elly Griffiths, winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award for her first mystery featuring Dr. Ruth Galloway, launches a new series with The Zig Zag Girl. Out last year in England, the first book is set in Brighton, England, where a small team called the Magic Men...
Winners and an Autographed Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Pauline B. of Rochester, MI won the copy of Daryl Wood Gerber's Fudging the Books. And, Death of an English Muffin by Victoria Hamilton will go to Jane W. from Scottsville, VA. The books will go out in the mail...