The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne is now available in paperback! Jane Austen was a very gifted writer and her influence remains 200+ years after she wrote her first novel. I’ve read many of her novels multiple times and have seen serious and humorous movie adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. The story and characters […]
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The House on the Cliff by Charlotte Williams
Psychological thrillers just may be my favorite genre. I love it when I can pick up a book and get instantly wrapped up in the story. That is exactly what happened with The House on the Cliff. The novel by Charlotte Williams was published in the UK earlier this year and is now available in […]
The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell
I thoroughly enjoyed this book from the first page to the last. It drew me right in and I couldn’t put it down. Lisa O’Donnell brings the story and each of the characters vividly to life. The author was an award winning screenwriter before she became a novelist. Her writing style is unique and it works. […]
The World is Round by Gertrude Stein
Happy 75th birthday to The World is Round! This classic book includes the beautiful prose of Gertrude Stein along with rose pink pages and lovely illustrations by Clement Hurd that are from the original book. At the time that it was first published, the book felt fresh and avant garde. 75 years later, it still does. This […]
We Are Water by Wally Lamb
Whether I’m reading a book or just going about my real life, I love to figure out and understand why people act and think they way they do. People are fascinating. If we just look at the surface, it’s easy to pass judgement. I prefer to go deeper than that. In We Are Water, Wally […]
Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
I was excited when I glanced at the beautiful Navajo art on the cover of this book. My first thought was that I was excited that a new Tony Hillerman novel was being released posthumously. I wondered if it would feature the familiar characters, Leaphorn and Chee. It turns out that I was only half-right. […]