About the author: Originally from Winchester, England, Alice’s plans to read law at a British university were disrupted when she fell deeply in love with Georgia, USA, while studying abroad. After moving all over Georgia, Alice has finally settled in Athens and has no plans to go anywhere else. She is a single mother to… Read More Book Review: ‘The Thread That Binds’ by Alice Hayes
What defines a normal life? Definitions vary, but if one had to take a guess, living in the limelight as the teenage star of a hit ’90s sitcom does not fit any of them. In Elizabeth Bass’s novel Life is Sweet, Rebecca Hudson had had enough of being in the limelight; so she threw a… Read More Book Review: ‘Life is Sweet’ by Elizabeth Bass
About the author: Kristan Higgins is the bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and a two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, National Public Radio, Library Journal, iBooks and Amazon have named Kristan’s books to their best… Read More Book Review: ‘If You Only Knew’, by Kristan Higgins
About the author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of over 25 books for adults, teens (including The Twin’s Daughter and Little Women and Me), and children (The Sisters 8, a nine-book series she created with her husband and daughter). Before becoming an author, Lauren was an independent bookseller, freelance editor, Publishers Weekly reviewer, sort-of librarian,… Read More Book Review: ‘The Sisters Club’, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Happy Sunday! As you ready yourself for another great week, are you wondering what to take along with you on your commute? Take a peek at this week’s recommended commute companion! ‘Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, by Sieni A.M. Review here. Purchase here. Synopsis: That boy is like the bamboo…foreign and unknown in this environment.… Read More Book Recommendation: ‘Scar of the Bamboo Leaf’, by Sieni A.M.
Janet DeLee’s latest book, Taking Leaps and Finding Ghosts, is a delightful, pleasant read that takes regular people going through regular things (and some…) growing through the process and ending up in a better place because of it. In short, it is a story that will resonate with many, if not all readers. I picked… Read More Book Review: ‘Taking Leaps and Finding Ghosts’, by Janet DeLee
There is a joke that I read some time ago that irritated me to no end. In it, a store that offers free husbands offers women the option to choose a husband from one of six floors. To make a long joke short, women are so hard to please that despite the amazing options available… Read More Book Review: ‘The One that Got Away’ by Bethany Chase
Books can be incredible in a credible way. And while the plot at the centre of Kathryn Craft’s The Far End of Happy is incredible, the web within which it is placed will feel credible to many. Although they started their married life giddy with excitement at the bright future before them, Ronnie and her… Read More Book Review: ‘The Far End of Happy’ by Kathryn Craft
Differentiating between one’s personal opinion and the quality of the book itself is important in writing good reviews, all the more that I often find myself at odds with the decisions made by the protagonists. Despite this, I have liked many a recent book I have read, and Maria Murnane’s Wait For the Rain is… Read More Book Review: Maria Murnane – ‘Wait for the Rain’
Unfaithfulness is quite a trauma for a spouse to go through. The depictions I have been exposed to are for the most part quite dramatic to the point of hilarity and/or absurdity: the clothes flying out of the window, the slap on the face, so on, so forth. It was so different from the way… Read More Book Review: Kristyn Kusek Lewis – ‘Save Me’