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Raising Hare
Raising Hare: A Memoir
by Chloe Dalton
Raising Hare (1/19/2025)
This book is a delight to read from several standpoints. Firstly, if you love animals, you will love this gentle and informative read. Secondly, if you are a nature lover, there are many interesting insights about the history of humanity's relationship with the hare over …more
The Seven O'Clock Club
The Seven O'Clock Club
by Amelia Ireland
Full of Surprises (11/9/2024)
Working through grief is the premise upon which this book opens with four of the most unlikely characters expected to meld successfully into a cohesive support group. Just as I was thinking I could predict where this story was going, the bombshell lands and blows all my …more
The Fertile Earth
The Fertile Earth: A Novel
by Ruthvika Rao
Not Quite Fertile (6/6/2024)
I was rather disappointed in the book, The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao. While I am interested in novels that highlight class differences and political upheaval across decades, I thought this book did not develop the characters deeply enough to make them believable to me. …more
The Flower Sisters
The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
Not to be Missed! (3/5/2024)
The Flower Sisters by Michelle Collins Anderson is a standout! I loved this book. It is based on a tragic event in 1928,at a dance hall in Missouri. This book is a page turner, surprising you with clever twists and a bombshell you won't see coming. It's pacing was good and …more
A Council of Dolls
A Council of Dolls: A Novel
by Mona Susan Power
History and Resilience (7/13/2023)
This book is a poignant story about the treatment of the Dakota people through generations of heartbreaking internal trauma and the systematic effort to strip native Americans of their cultural heritage through the use of colonizers' Indian schools. The book is cleverly …more
Pieces of Blue
Pieces of Blue
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Heartfelt Family Drama (2/23/2023)
Pieces of Blue is a book that will capture your heart and entertain you throughout. It opens with a widow and her three children relocating to Hawaii to start a new life. Their first task is to open up a run-down motel and make a go of their new life. The characters in this …more
Honor
Honor
by Thrity Umrigar
Another Winner (10/6/2021)
Honor, the title of Thrity Umrigar's latest novel, serves as a cutting edge amid the twisting, perilous circumstances of two women in India. This is another well developed, thought provoking read. Like her other titles, her characters touch readers' hearts, provoking …more
The Temple House Vanishing
The Temple House Vanishing
by Rachel Donohue
The Temple House Vanishing (4/5/2021)
An intriguing story with gothic features, this novel is set in a Catholic boarding school by the sea, operated by nuns. The story builds up to the mysterious disappearance of a young student and the school Art teacher. This happening is being investigated years later by a …more
A Girl is A Body of Water
A Girl is A Body of Water
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
A Gem (8/2/2020)
A Girl Is a Body of Water is a beautifully written book that sketches the story of a girl in 1970's Uganda struggling to discover who she is amid the overbearing clutches of a patriarchal society. Early in the book you come to care for Kirabo, our main character, rooting …more
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever
by Joshilyn Jackson
Never Have I Ever (4/24/2019)
While the story line is steeped in intrigue, clever in its twisty design, I found this was not enough to offset the choppy pacing of the book. It was work to read this book, which contains too many descriptions at inopportune moments and restatements of things you already …more
The Last Year of the War
The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner (11/25/2018)
In a nutshell, Susan Meissner does it again! I cannot be more enthusiastic about this book. Author of As Bright As Heaven, Meissner creates instantly likeable characters again. Who cannot root for an aging woman looking to connect to her past in one meaningful act while …more
So Much Life Left Over
So Much Life Left Over
by Louis de Bernieres
So Much Life Left Over by Louis DeBernieres (7/18/2018)
Having returned home physically intact after WWI, Daniel Pitt, his brother and war cronies face the inevitable struggle to live meaningful lives amid the delicacy and propriety of ordinary English life. Set in Kent and Ceylon, the ravages of war blunt their vision as we are …more
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