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...

Something Like Happy by Eva Woods

September 05, 2017

Do you remember the “Hundred Happy Days” project that was popular about three years ago? Now, take one miserable thirty-five-year-old and thrust her into daily contact with another woman determined to celebrate those hundred happy days. That kicks off Eva...

The Bookshop at Water’s End by Patti Callahan Henry

July 12, 2017

Mimi, the bookseller at Title Wave, the bookstore in Watersend, South Carolina, welcomes readers to her bookstore, a place as magic as the river. The characters revolve around the bookstore, the beginning and end of the story, a place of secrets and answers in Patti...

A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner

March 16, 2017

Sometimes, it’s all about serendipity. I was at The Poisoned Pen the other night when Jacqueline Winspear was talking about war brides who came over on the Queen Mary, British women who had married American servicemen. Then, I read Susan Meissner’s novel,...

The Gift of a Lifetime by Melissa Hill

December 18, 2016

I almost took Melissa Hill’s The Gift of a Lifetime back to the library. Then, I read the back flap again. An Irish immigrant to New York City loves movies and New York. At Christmastime, someone sends her on a treasure hunt to movie-related sites in the city....