The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All by Mary Martha Greene

January 13, 2024

Our friend, Kaye Wilkinson Barley, recommended Mary Martha Greene’s The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Southern Recipes, Sweet Remembrances, and a Little Rambunctious Behavior on her own blog, Meanderings and Muses. It’s just the kind of cookbook I would...

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

September 24, 2022

Sarah Addison Allen’s novels are always magical. They’re few and far between, and the rarity just adds to the magic that she puts into her books. If you haven’t read Garden Spells or The Peach Keeper or any of her other books, you’ve missed the...

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...

A Fatal Booking by Victoria Gilbert

July 03, 2022

Sometimes, three books in a series are enough. I’m not sure if Victoria Gilbert is going to continue the series after A Fatal Booking,, the third Booklover’s B&B Mystery, but this one was enough for me. I was a little disappointed in the...

Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton Frank

June 11, 2019

This must be my South Carolina week. First, Patti Callahan Henry’s The Favorite Daughter, and then Dorothea Benton Frank’s Queen Bee about a woman who doesn’t feel as if she’s a favorite at all. The two books couldn’t be any more...