The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

April 19, 2026

Over the years, I’ve read a number of Marie Bostwick’s novels. The Book Club for Troublesome Women is the first one that made me angry. It wasn’t the book itself. It was a very good book. But Bostwick included so many unfair conditions for women that...

The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth by Barbara O’Neal

August 10, 2025

I hadn’t read one of Barbara O’Neal’s novels in a few years. Thanks to Kaye Wilkinson Barley for mentioning that The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth was coming out, and that she loved it. I’ve been a fan of O’Neal’s for over fifteen...

The Suite Spot by Trish Doller

March 26, 2022

I didn’t read Trish Doller’s first adult novel, Float Plan. That book introduced Rachel Beck’s sister, Anna. Rachel takes center stage in The Suite Spot. Doller’s acknowledgments say she wanted to write something warm and gentle during COVID....

Friends & Fiction

June 13, 2020

I want to share a Facebook site with you. It’s called Friends & Fiction. Five authors, Mary Kay Andrews, Mary Alice Monroe, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey and Patti Callahan Henry are the five bestselling authors who put together the site. They also...

Lies in White Dresses by Sofia Grant

September 24, 2019

Sofia Grant’s Lies in White Dresses takes readers back to 1952, and to a subject that I haven’t seen addressed in a novel before. Do you know about Nevada’s residency requirements for people seeking divorces during that time? It wasn’t always...