When was the last time you read a book that left you laughing, smiling, and overall feeling great? I hadn’t had one of those books in a while – until I picked up Stephanie Bond’s latest. I Think I Love You is the story of a dysfunctional Southern family whose secrets are finally catching up…
Mary Alice Monroe’s The Beach House is profoundly moving, from the short prologue in which a woman feels sorrow and regret about her relationships with her now-grown children, to the final pages in which hope replaces sorrow. Caretta Rutledge has been asked to visit her mother, Lovie, in their Lowcountry cottage at the beach. Though…
If the title of this book, The Beach House, and the cover illustration of dunes, a beach umbrella, and the water don’t clue you in, I’ll just go ahead and say it: this is a great beach read. I grew up “down the shore” myself, and reading this novel in landlocked Atlanta made me long…
I’ve wavered several times on what grade to give this book. It’s a quick and easy read with a likable heroine but the content is depressing and I’m not sure there’s enough substance to make it worth its hardcover price. Bess Stallone (no relation to Sylvester) is our narrator and heroine. She is a working…
Sarah Bridges turns thirty-five, and runs smack-dab into a mid-life crisis. She enjoys her job as an ESL teacher very much, but it takes up almost all of her energy and free time. She likes her boyfriend, Stoddard, and yet, three years into their relationship, they’re both insisting that it’s “casual.” She’s written a book…
I was looking forward to reading my second Luanne Rice book. Although it was a bit of a downer, I enjoyed her earlier Cloud Nine and cared about its characters. I can’t say the same for Safe Harbor, a decent enough read, but one in which that connection to character was lacking. Dana Underhill has…
Doing Good is Pamela Morsi’s first foray into the world of mainstream women’ s fiction. And, wow, is it ever a drastic departure from the author’s trademark homespun style. Some say change is a good thing. I’d have to disagree in this case. Morsi exchanges her warm-hearted, appealing characters for a first-person narrative by a…
The Secret Ingredient is a light and funny book that perfectly illustrates the old saying: “Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.” When Elizabeth Baskin sets out to try and turn her husband back into the man he was when they were first married, the results are exactly what she hoped for…
Julie and Romeo is simply a heart-warmer of a tale. Loosely based on the classic Romeo and Juliet, it has a happy ending and enough interesting twists for those who like something different in a romance. Julie Roseman is a sixty-year-old divorcee who owns a failing family flower business. Her parents started Roseman’s flower shop…
No Place Like Home is the third book I’ve read in 2002, and with such an auspicious beginning, I can only feel hopeful about what this new year will bring. What a beautiful story this was! Jewel Sabatino is smack dab in the middle of the hardest part of her life when she receives news…
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