In the tradition of Jodi Picoult, Jamie Kain’s The Good Sister begins with pieces of a story that are brought together with increasing momentum and culminates into a poignant ending. A previously perfect-from-the-outside family unit of five – Sarah, Rachel, Asha, and their parents – starts breaking apart after Sarah’s cancer diagnosis. With an absent… Read More Book Review: ‘The Good Sister’, by Jamie Kain
Happy Sunday! This blogger uses Sundays to plan and prepare for the upcoming week. I have been asked so many times about the resources that help me plan a full week that I decided to launch the “Planning the Week” feature with three concomitant components: a recommended book to make your commute easier; a healthy… Read More Book Recommendation: ‘What Would Mary Berry Do?’, by Claire Sandy
The reviewing bug has bit me in recent weeks; I find myself posting comments all over forums and blogs about the various books I’ve read and movies I’ve seen. So I decided to give regularly scheduled reviews a try; that way, I can share the good things I’ve experienced with my readers, and help them… Read More Book review: The Friday Night Knitting Club (Kate Jacobs)
Believe it or not, guys, there are less than four weeks of winter left! Not that I needed an excuse to read more books, of course, but being able to have an extra excuse always makes the reading so much more pleasurable. We have been lucky in our little corner of the world in that… Read More Book Review Round-Up: Four Books to Read During the Four Weeks of Winter Left
About the author: L. Davis Munro holds a master’s degree with a focus on women’s suffrage theatre and works in theatre and dance. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with her husband and her dog.. About the book: Being an independent woman in 1913 London is certainly empowering, but Emmy Nation is tired of… Read More Book Review: ‘Emmy Nation, Undercover Suffragette’, by L. Davis Munro
About the author: Ken Dunn is one of the leadership training world’s up and coming great speakers and trainers. An incredible hunger to learn and teach others has led Ken successfully through five different professional careers in the past 25 years. Ken began a policing career at the age of 18. He was involved in… Read More Book Review: ‘The Greatest Prospector in the World’, by Ken Dunn
About the author: From the author’s website: “I’m from Minneapolis. I had a really dramatic childhood involving foster care, prison visits and multiple moms that gave me lots of opportunity to interface with some of the darker aspects of human nature. People ask me how I survived and I think it comes down to 1)… Read More Book Review: ‘Multiple Listings’, by Tracy McMillan
About the author: Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday and Lovers in Crime Mysteries and the Thorny Rose Mysteries. Lauren is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions. She also passes on what she has learned in her years of… Read More Book Review: ‘Cancelled Vows: A Mac Faraday Mystery’, by Lauren Carr
About the author Mary Anna Evans has degrees in physics and engineering, but her heart is in the past. Her series character, Faye Longchamp, lives the exciting life of an archaeologist, and Mary Anna envies her a little. Mary Anna’s Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries have earned recognition that includes the Mississippi Library Association’s Mississippi Author… Read More Book Review: ‘Isolation: A Faye Longchamp Mystery’, by Mary Anna Evans
Remember that one thing that fascinated you when you were a child? Dinosaurs, fairies, angels, princesses? How awesome would it be to seen something like that? Twenty-two year old single mother Anna Jennings didn’t have a fascination with dinosaurs, but her four year-old son David does. But his powerful imagination envelops his mother in a… Read More Book Review: ‘Imaginary Things’ by Andrea Lochen