I’m always on the lookout for books that deal well with social issues, and Here We Lie, the latest novel from Paula Treick DeBoard, is just such a book. On the surface, it’s a story not all that different from hundreds of others, the tale of two young women from startlingly different backgrounds who forge…
Narrated by Xe Sands Nora Stuart left her small town of Scupper Island, Maine, after high school to head to the Big City with a full scholarship to Tufts U. She also left her identity as an overweight, awkward and bullied nerd behind, got her MD and is now a successful gastroenterologist in Boston. A…
Even though this claims to be the conclusion of a four book series, I read Winter Solstice as a standalone and had no trouble falling into the web of family relations depicted in the story. The Quinn Family of Nantucket has faced challenges aplenty over the past few years, including jail time for one, a…
Are you a fan of books where women find themselves to be stronger than they ever imagined? What about if we throw in family situations that force them out of their comfort zone? Or have them confronting the past they’ve been running from? What if the happily-ever-after is grounded in reality rather than fantastical situations?…
This is a difficult book to review, since I’m reluctant to compare it too much to Practical Magic, to which it stands as a prequel. The Rules of Magic is completely its own book, separate from the original story, although the two books are connected by virtue of being about the same family. If you…
I’m a huge fan of two-stranded stories; what author Michael White describes as “novels that involve interweaving plots – one strand in the present day and the other set in the past.” So, when I saw the description of House of Shadows with its entwined tales of Stuart England and modern day Oxfordshire I was…
Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery is the third in the delectable series of books about Polly Waterford and her charming shop in the quaint village of Mount Polbearne. The whole saga – including this entry – is satisfyingly sweet and engagingly eccentric, which makes this instalment a delightful addition to any holiday reading plans….
I once vowed that I would never again read a book about a woman running a cupcake shop, bakery, or anything similar. I was absolutely burned out on that entire premise. Not only did The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky change my mind, it’s a book I am now recommending to everyone I can think…
As we head into the heart of summer, Carolyn Brown gives us a good reason to stretch out under a shady tree and take in an incredibly beautiful story of a sleepy southern town, the citizens who live there and the lives they live in the gorgeous novel The Strawberry Hearts Diner. Jancy Wilson is…
It was just her and her horse, unobserved, free; she felt this freedom like any other horse-borne traveler over thousands years, back to Xenophon and the age of the Greeks. Sarah Lachapelle has an all-consuming, perfectionist connection with her horse. Boo. When one trains with a Selle Français horse at the level of admittance to…
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