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The Mystery Writer
The Mystery Writer: A Novel
by Sulari Gentill
The Mystery Writer (2/14/2024)
There are plenty of twists and turns here as the main character, Theodosia Benton, very suddenly finds herself in a tangled murder investigation. Online conspiracy theories, the stuff of our everyday headlines these days, play an interesting role in the mystery as well as …more
Miss Austen
Miss Austen
by Gill Hornby
Walk Into an Austen Novel (3/11/2020)
Reading this book is like taking a step back in time to Jane Austen's England. As her beloved sister, Cassandra, now an elderly spinster, tries to retrieve old letters to protect Jane's legacy, we follow her into a world with all of the personalities, romantic intrigue, …more
Greek to Me
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
Ode on a Grecian Yearning (3/18/2019)
I thoroughly enjoyed traveling with Mary Norris through her experience of all things Greek, both ancient and modern. I truly learned something new on every page, and her vibrant voice and comprehensive scholarship brought each detail to life. Although I do not expect to …more
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
by Cherise Wolas
The Writer's Life (6/28/2017)
My strongest takeaway from this novel is the abyss that exists for a writer between his/her creative life and his/her everyday life. I had never considered the tremendous tension which must pull any artist back and forth, mentally and physically, between these two seemingly …more
The Life of the World to Come
The Life of the World to Come
by Dan Cluchey
Infinity and Beyond (5/6/2016)
Meeting Leo Brice, new-fledged lawyer and broken-hearted lover, was an experience. He gained my sympathy for his all out devastation when soulmate Fiona betrays him to pursue an advance to her acting career in the arms of a shallow fellow actor. But he gained my respect in …more
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
by Antonia Hodgson
Back in Time (3/16/2016)
This is an intriguing time passage back to Dickensian England. Characters are fully developed, and the reader finds himself/herself walking the streets of London looking right and left for the cut-purse light-footed criminal as well as quick stepping out of the way of the …more
What Lies Between Us
What Lies Between Us
by Nayomi Munaweera
Emotional journey (1/10/2016)
I was halfway through Nayomi Munaweera's What Lies Between Us before I realized that I did not know the first person narrator's name. While this is unusual story development, what I find even more intriguing is that it didn't matter since I was already so invested in her …more
Girl Waits with Gun
Girl Waits with Gun
by Amy Stewart
This Girl Means Business (8/25/2015)
Miss Constance Kopp is no shrinking violet. In an era (1914) when women were supposed to be docile, domestic, and dependent on men, Ms. Kopp stands out literally and figuratively as anything but. Not only does she stand a head taller than most of the male characters in Amy …more
Three Many Cooks
Three Many Cooks: One Mom, Two Daughters: Their Shared Stories of Food, Faith & Family
by Pam Anderson, Maggy Keet & Sharon Damelio
food and family (4/1/2015)
I enjoyed reading this book--seeing how families and food play such a massive part in our culture. I could definitely feel a connection between my family and Pam Anderson's family. We too take time to plan our holidays around about who's bringing what and what was good last …more
Shocking Paris
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse
by Stanley Meisler
Inroduction to Chaim Soutine (2/3/2015)
Stanley Meisler brings to life a period of time between the world wars which was unique in the world of painting: the intriguing work of Jewish artists who left their eastern European homes to settle in Paris's Montparnasse. The amorphous group is called The School of Paris; …more
The Life I Left Behind
The Life I Left Behind
by Colette McBeth
Telling the Life You Left Behind (12/21/2014)
It is rare to get an inside view of a horrible, violent crime through the eyes of the victims. Colette McBeth provides a visceral account of murder and attempted murder on two women--Melody and Eve; Melody survives in a haunted, paralyzing existence, and Eve who has died …more
Bitter Greens
Bitter Greens
by Kate Forsyth
Revisiting Rapunzel (9/17/2014)
Combine history lesson, romance, real life intrigue, and witchery and you will have Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth. Her clever weaving of the biography of Charlotte-Rose de la Force, an acclaimed published 17th century storyteller, with the Rapunzel of the fairytale we all …more
The Romanov Sisters
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by Helen Rappaport
The Romanov Sisters (6/18/2014)
Helen Rapport provides a meticulous, superbly researched view into the daily lives of Nicholas and Alexandra . . . and their five children. The contrast between the turmoil and dangers of the outside world and the insolated bubble which was the Tsar's household is …more
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