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...

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

March 06, 2022

There was Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun. I read it, but the book that really makes me want to visit Italy is Rebecca Serle’s novel, One Italian Summer. And, it’s not Rome or Florence or Venice. It’s Positano on the Amalfi Coast, with its...