“The Bookstore Family” by Alice Hoffman

July 29, 2025

When I reviewed Alice Hoffman’s “The Bookstore Keepers” yesterday, I said the first in the series, “The Bookstore Sisters” was my favorite. But, Hoffman wrapped up The Once Upon a Time Bookshop series with the best, “The Bookstore...

Off the Map by Trish Doller

March 11, 2023

Trish Doller’s female characters just speak to me. If you read Float Plan, you might remember Anne, whose fiance died, and she impulsively decided to sail the world. In Off the Map, readers can catch up with Anne when Carla Black flies to Ireland to be maid of...

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

July 23, 2022

I finally got around to this book after it appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. I’ve had it on my TBR pile for a while. But, I read it earlier this week, and sobbed so much over it that my cat, Josh, climbed into my lap to check on me. Ashley...

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

January 30, 2019

Think carefully before you spit into that test tube for Ancestry.com or any of the other genealogy sites. Dani Shapiro took it all lightly, but she was traumatized by the results. She writes of it inInheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. ...

Ramblings

June 12, 2016

As I said before, my family was here. My Mom, and sisters, Linda and Christie, came in to celebrate Mom’s birthday. We had a wonderful time because we were together. We laughed and talked, played cards, and Linda picked on us, and we laughed so much we cried....