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Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, A Memoir
by Carol Smith
Crossing the River (2/8/2021)
What a powerful book! I find myself in total agreement with other BB First Impression reviews: well written, heart felt, enduring, and a testimony of a mother's love, but I also came away with much more than another way to examine and to cope with the loss of someone youmore
The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal
by Bryn Turnbull
The Woman Before Wallis (7/1/2020)
On the heels of reading The Queens Secret and The Splendid Vile, The Woman Before Wallis, was the perfect ending to my all things English trifecta! If you enjoy discovering new and interesting details about the royals, you will thoroughly take pleasure reading this wellmore
Daughter of the Reich: A Novel
by Louise Fein
Daughter of the Reich (3/5/2020)
What an insightful, well written, and compelling novel! Fein presents one of the most realistic and compelling stories that I have read concerning the rise of Hitler and the atrocities inflicted upon the European Jews and those who opposed Nazi rule. As an added bonus, anmore
The Secrets of Love Story Bridge
by Phaedra Patrick
...Just an ordinary love story (1/1/2020)
After falling in love with the first three Phaedra Patrick novels, I was so looking forward to her fourth. Unfortunately, number four was a bit of a disappointment for me. This love story, widower with child finds romance, was so predictable, yet so unlike Patrick'smore
Lady Clementine
by Marie Benedict
LADY CLEMENTINE: Britain's Steel Magnolia (10/29/2019)
"The Crown" generated my interest in the Churchill family, and Benedict's LADY CLEMENTINE provided compelling insights regarding the personal and political struggles and successes of this intriguing couple. Well written and researched, Benedict captures the intimate andmore
The Big Finish
by Brooke Fossey
The Big Finish...what a wonderful way to go! (10/6/2019)
Turning 62 this year has brought me to a new reading genre, nursing home survival novels. All joking aside, THE BIG FINISH, came to me right after I read and thoroughly enjoyed, THE GREAT UNEXPECTED; what a kismet this lovely novel was to read. Information in the covermore
Ellie and the Harpmaker
by Hazel Prior
Magically Lyrical (4/3/2019)
A sweeter or more charming love story than ELLIE AND THE HARP MAKER will be hard to find. When Ellie wanders down a road less traveled and encounters Dan, the harp maker, their odyssey to each other begins. In her captivating debut novel, Hazel Prior, with fetchingmore
So Much Life Left Over
by Louis de Bernieres
So Much Life Left Over (7/7/2018)
What a delight! Of the nearly 100 novels I have read in 2018, this is my most loved, enjoyed, and thought provoking read yet, and I do not believe it will be topped...unless, of course, DeBernieres releases a third book in this series. Because I previously read THE DUSTmore
The Summer Wives
by Beatriz Williams
Recipe for a perfect summer read (4/18/2018)
If you are looking for a reason to settle on the New England coast with gin and tonic for a day or two, because you won't be able to stop reading, cuddle up with The Summer Wives. Beatriz Williams' best work yet, I have read and loved them all, is a recipe for a perfectmore
The Music Shop: A Novel
by Rachel Joyce
If you love... (1/6/2018)
If you enjoy music, cannot resist a magically love story, believe that life is full of kismets and serendipities, and good can be found in this world of ours, read THE MUSIC SHOP!!!!!! This life of mine took on a whole new positive meaning when I finished this jewel...I bet yours will too??
Other People's Houses
by Abbi Waxman
Other Peoples' Houses- Makes me want to move!!! (11/24/2017)
Thank you BB and Abbi Waxman for making me smile so hard that my cheeks still hurt! Who said second novels usually disappoint? Other People's Houses is the BEST second novel ever! The story, the characters and voices, are well developed, entertaining,and will keep youmore
As Bright as Heaven
by Susan Meissner
As Bright as Heaven... (10/13/2017)
Thanks to BB and Susan Meissner for the privilege to review such an interesting and well documented novel concerning the Spanish flu pandemic/WWI in America. She chose to tell this story through the voices of the Bright women; I was amazed that their diction "grew" as themore
Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
...and they lived happily ever after. (6/28/2017)
A HUGE thank you to Gabrielle Zevin for sharing her wonderfully delightful Cinderella story which should be read by anyone who is a daughter, mother, father, grandparent, best friend, or has a chapter in their lives they don't wish to be read. Through a series of magicallymore
Small Blessings
by Martha Woodroof
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose...unless it is Rose Callahan! (5/18/2014)
What a delightful reading experience! SMALL BLESSINGS holds within its pages everything a reader could want and more: well developed and hard to forget characters, golden threads of plot development, authentic voice, and more twists and turns than a county fair rollermore
Mimi Malloy, At Last!
by Julia MacDonnell
An Irish Cindrella (2/17/2014)
Although it has a fairy tale ending, Mimi's road to the dance involves more than just a palace ball. Mimi's journey, despite the dark spots of child abuse and memories lost then found, includes a functionally dysfunctional family, a Yick Yack Club, good lonely hearts, andmore
Where You Can Find Me: A Novel
by Sheri Joseph
Where You Can Find Me (3/1/2013)
At first, I used the age rule: Before you put a novel down, read the number of pages equal to your age. After fifty-five pages, I made myself age another twenty years; unfortunately, as I ended the novel, I was the age of Methuselah!!! Joseph's
novel just didn't capture me -more
The Good House
by Ann Leary
The Good House...a MUST READ for 2013! (12/25/2012)
Ann Leary's "The Good House" snatched me in with it's first sentence and never let me leave until it's last. Filled with freshly crisp dialogues, settings packed with rich New England details, unforgettable characters full of depth, chilling pasts, and the possibilities ofmore
A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel
by Wiley Cash
A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME: Simply, the Best! (3/6/2012)
As an avid reader, I encounter many good books and a few that are really good. A Land More Kind Than Home is without a doubt, one of absolute BEST that I have read. So compelling, it could be read in one sitting; so beautifully written, I found myself reading most of itmore
The Language of Flowers: A Novel
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
In the language of flowers... (5/22/2011)
After reading The Language of Flowers, I now have the one and only word which so vividly describes the impact Vanessa Diffenbaugh's novel had on me and I am positive will have upon every mother and daughter who experiences this captivating and wonderfully charming novel - Alyssum.
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
This Lassie is Scotland bound! (3/12/2011)
I am weary...I have been with Jamie and his lovely Claire every step of their arduous journey through Scotland trying to outsmart our arch nemesis, Lord Randall. The history, the characters, the dialogue, the descriptive scenery, the story line, and yes, the sex, are justmore
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