Beauty’s life is good, she lives with her father, her two sisters, and her brother-in-law in a small cottage. However, when her father comes back from a trip, she finds
“Nobody wants to make any moral judgments. We pay for everything with no one looking at the harm we are doing. No one is willing to admit that we can’t
In a family so large that it tumbled and stretched to the edges of comprehension, every one of us came knocking on Aunt Jannie and Uncle Artus’s front door eventually,
The first time I picked up an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader was about 20 years ago when I was at a gift shop on vacation. The book was a hoot
“Gods don’t grow well in America.” Shadow was learning this first hand. Being Mr. Wednesday’s hired minion wasn’t as cut and dried as he had thought, but where else would
This is an unusual and disturbing story about mental illness. The attractive, new guy at school, Brad Johnson, has taken an interest in Tracy Lloyd, but what does he really
Words matter–how we use them and how we don’t. Chelsea learned the hard way. Her words almost ended up killing a fellow classmate. When she outed a boy at a
I have tried my share of fad diets and this one was unique, but a little too “out there” for someone of my age. Taking a 20 minute cold bath
This is a tongue and cheek philosophical theory of what makes someone an asshole. James comes up with irritating traits of assholes such as “not hearing someone out” and “reflecting
It is good to see a young male protagonist in a young adult fiction novel. I was beginning to wonder if they existed. Stephen Quinn, 15, and his father are
My Review: This book is about hope, love and self awareness. I really enjoyed the story of Murphy and the second chance that he receives to become the man he
Twenty-four-year-old small-town girl Ana Reynold serves beer at the local bar, tries to keep her beater car running, and dreams of a better life as a painter. If she can
A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon
Sixteen-year-old T.J. Callahan has no desire to go anywhere. With his cancer in remission, all he wants is to get back to his normal life. But his parents insist that
This book is an autobiography about a pastor of a substantial California ministry who realizes while he is on a mission in India, that he is unhappy with his family
AUTHOR INTERVIEW Welcome to my blog! I’m excited to present Lauren Clark, author of Dancing Naked in Dixie. What is Dancing Naked in Dixie about? It’s really a story about
Book Review, Detective Fiction, Mystery, Police Procedural, Psychological, Serial Killer, Series, Thriller
In reading the second installment of the Gretchen Lowell series, I was interested to find out what happened with the unusual relationship of Archie Sheridan (Portland police detective) and Gretchen
This book is an epistolary novel which means it is written in letters. The interesting part is that the letters are written by one person only. You would think this
This is an emotional story about a daughter that cannot do enough to please her neurotic mother. It’s a story about two sisters from two different worlds. It’s a story
This book is just as attention-grabbing and action-packed as the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. At the end of the first book, Lisbeth doesn’t want anything more