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If you spend much time in the writing world it won’t take long before someone recommends you read Stephen King’s book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. It’s happened to me several times. But I confess, I’m not a fan of the horror genre that King writes in so…I was a little squeamish about what this book might hold in store for me. Not anymore!

 

Let me start by saying that anyone who loves a good Stephen King tale will really enjoy the first third of this book. Indeed, if you are a big fan, i...

Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the movie Breakfast At Tiffany’s or read the story...tread with caution for spoilers in this book review...
I fell in love with the movie Breakfast At Tiffany’s when I was younger. It seemed so glamourous and nutty and sentimental. When I got older I read Truman Capote’s original short story and realized the story was darker and Holly Golightly, that delightful party girl, was really a uptown version of Julia Robert’s character in Pretty Woman. 
So I saw the sto...

As I write this we are all living through the COVID-19 isolation/slow reopening and the accompanying shortages, stresses and, in the midst of it all, hopefully discovering new ways to make our lives whole. It couldnt be a more appropriate time for this book to arrive on bookshelves.
Erik Larsons The SplendidAnd The Vile is an insightfully detailed and revealing book about the first year of Winston Churchills amazing term as Prime Minister (PM) of Great Britain during WWII. If you are tempted...

When I find myself stuck inside hiding from a pandemic, I kinda hope I have a good book. How about you? I thought so. That being said, I was curious what everyone is reading. I just finished Fifth Avenue, 5 a.m., which, if you LOVE the movie Breakfast at Tiffanys (I do!!) you MUST read...its the behind the scenes and a lot of fun. And fun sounds good right now, right?
So I thought Id look online for recommendations of fun books to read. I did NOT look for books with a pandemic theme because,...

If you are a fan of all things Julia you will love this book...it might even become a personal treasure that you enjoy rereading as your beef bourguignon is percolating in the oven. If you've written Julia Child off as a skit on SNL, you'll be delightfully surprised by how accessible and personable the real woman was. And if you've ever pursued a dream, trying to make it real, this book will stick with you long after you turn the last page.

I had heard how little Julia knew about c...

Harper Evans’ luck has been very bad. She trusted her mother and that landed her in the county Jail, with custody of her son going to her mother-in-law, who was never her fan. She’s free now and ready to reclaim her son and make a fresh start, the only problem is she’s broke and stuck in a Colorado mountain town with no friends and only a slim thread of hope to hang onto.
Logan Rivers just fired his housekeeper because her idea of keeping house had more to do with playing between the sheets t...

I am not normally a fan of ‘Best Of’ lists, like best books of the year, best summer reads, etc. I find they tend toward either the depressing or the pretentious. Why is that? Why can’t lists like that be filled with fun books that you’ll find hard to put down and even harder to say farewell to when you reach the end? But that’s a topic of another post.
I’m also not particularly into the ancient Greed gods, although I do have the basic working knowledge a liberal arts education affords those w...

#3 in the series: It Started With A Cowboy
I am late to the party with this fun cowboy/hockey romance by Jennie Marts. I missed the first two books( Caught Up In a Cowboy and You Had Me At Cowboy ) but I’ll be going back to catch up on the other James brothers. In the meantime, let me tell you about this one...
Colt James is part of a large ranching family that seems to have an endless supply of handsome sons. And not just handsome, but good guys, in their ways. Though they’re cowboys they also l...

As promised, here is the first of my new, now-and-then recurring blogs on great book series I have found and loved. Of course, great series are found in all genres, and if you read my blog regularly you know I do read a wide variety of genres. But if I’m reviewing a great series in a genre you haven’t read, that might be the prefect entre to a new world of reading. So give it a try!
This blog’s entry is in a genre I truly love: mysteries. You might know that I have a cozy mystery out there ca...

I love Ms. William’s books but I’m particularly fond of her medievals, so I’m delighted with the arrival of this third entry in her Falling For a Knight series, A Knight’s Captive . This series follows a family of English knights who are determined to save Scotland, at the risk of their own lives, from the wrath of the English king. That means stopping the Scottish Lord Graham from plotting Scotland’s rebellion.
Graham’s plotting depends upon the marriage of his daughter, Arabela, to Sir Rory,...