Switching back and forth between women’s fiction and romantic comedy satisfies my need for poignant stories and stories that make me laugh, because it is rare to find a book that has both. While I liked Three Sisters, it didn’t tug on my heartstrings. In fact, while it is well written, the characters’ scenarios seemed…
I don’t understand martyrdom. And in the same vein, I don’t understand not talking about issues, resulting in them festering for years and years. This book has a lot of that, making it difficult to identify with the characters. At age five Kaylie Flynn’s drug-addicted mother attempted suicide in front of her, causing her to…
Even before The Sixth Sense and the famous line “I see dead people”, I loved ghost stories. Long ago I discovered Elizabeth Peters’ gothic books written under the pseudonym of Barbara Michaels. Since that time I search out similar ghost stories, stories that are not too scary but not too cutesy either. I’ve read Sharla…
Narrated by Heidi Baker I find I tend to avoid books that get a lot of hype, especially indie books. Part of that might be innate stubbornness on my part, but it’s also because often the book doesn’t live up to expectations, at least not for me. Occasionally this habit of mine means I miss…
The song from White Christmas tells us: Sisters, sisters There were never such devoted sisters, Never had to have a chaperone, No sir, I’m there to keep my eye on her That is certainly true of the oldest sister in this story: She was a caregiver who kept an eye on her younger sibling. Unfortunately,…
When looking on Amazon for information about the latest book in Ms. White’s Tradd Street series, I came across this book. I enjoy Ms. White’s “grit lit” – southern women’s fiction – and her writing is eloquent and evocative. Both aspects are present in this book, but I did have some problems with the plotting…
Of course I don’t expect seismic changes to happen with women’s fiction, but I do expect more than a glimpse of everyday life. Three Good Things elaborates on a couple of issues facing Ellen McClarety and her sister Lanie, but for the most part their problems are treated in a lackadaisical manner – maybe a…
It is not often upon finishing a book that I feel compelled to write the review. Usually I wait a little while and think about what worked and what didn’t, but with books that move me, I have this compulsion to put words down on paper straightaway, in the hopes of conveying the emotions that…
One of my very favorite vacations as a child was a trip we took to Hershey, PA. It was an extremely fun excursion, aided in large part by what we ate while there (take a guess what that was). Disney may claim it is the happiest place on earth but I have a hard time…
While I love books that make me laugh, reading them continuously would be like a steady diet of sweets. And if you have ever overdosed on processed sugar, then you know it can make you start craving real food. Women’s fiction books are like my real food. Though there is not the always the Hollywood…
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