This is the story of the American Dream told from the perspective of a centenarian on his deathbed looking back on a life-shaping adventure he had as an adolescent when he drove two giraffes across the country on the back of what amounted to not much more than a pick-up truck. Honestly, for whatever reason, the title didn’t grab me on this one, and I put off reading it a lot longer than I should … Read More “West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge” »
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Columnist Bells Walker finds herself pregnant (again!) and packs up herself and her two teenage children to follow her husband from New York City to (in her mind) the middle of nowhere, which is the only place he’s able to get a job. She takes an instant dislike to their new house, the town, and the people living there and starts a blog at her old newspaper in NYC, where she anonymously insults everything and … Read More “The Truth and Other Hidden Things by Lea Geller” »
One of the things I love most about having an active Instagram/Bookstragram page is connecting with authors. When new author Tori Whitaker reached out to ask if I’d be interested in reading and reviewing her latest book, I was very excited to receive it in my mailbox. And the story itself did not disappoint. When the book begins, we find ourselves at Millicent Glenn’s wedding, but she is not your traditional 1940s and 1950s housewife, … Read More “Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish by Tori Whitaker” »
In 1934, Ruth escapes the psychiatric hospital in Tuscaloosa where she was born and raised after one of the orderlies tries to force her into an unwanted marriage. After taking a job caring for an ailing, elderly man — who gifts her with a rare coin and then dies — she becomes half of the Hawthorn Sisters, two women who claim they can heal people through touch and prayer. When her other half falls in … Read More “Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter” »
This is a fun, quick, fairly light mystery/suspense novel that is perfect to get you out of any reading slump you might find yourself in. Three women, one man. (Maybe you’re not supposed to know that it’s one man right away, but the title of the book alludes to that anyway.) Holly has been married to Jack for almost twenty years, has three children with him, and has both a private pediatric practice and a … Read More “The Three Mrs. Wrights by Linda Keir” »