Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West Imagine finding evidence that your boyfriend, an up and coming movie director, was cheating on you with one of his starlets through a gossip magazine. Imagine also that your mother Shelby and beloved step father just recently died in a plane crash, you’ve never had a good [...]
Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek During Nanowrimo 2008, Karen Harrington posted an article that Janet Finch wrote to encourage participants, “Dear Author – ‘Make Trouble for Your Characters.’ “ Jayne Pupek did just that for Ellie Sanders, an adolescent girl growing up in a home with a mentally ill mother. Ultimately, she is the one [...]
Etta by Gerald Kolpan I am not typically one for reading Westerns. The American West has never held my imagination the way it has for so many people. Still, when Etta was offered as an Early Reader choice on LibraryThing in December, I requested it and was lucky enough to snag it. I don’t think [...]
As I mentioned before, I joined the Book Clubs application on Facebook and started my own online book club Historical Fiction Lovers. We started the club reading Loving Frank and seven of us completed the Reader’s Guide and Review form. There was some really good discussion, especially about Mamah and her choices. I found out [...]
Thanks to everyone who shared their hopes and opinions about yesterday’s inauguration. As promised, I added everyone’s name to the List Randomizer to determine who would win a free copy of What Would Martin Say? by Clarence B. Jones. The winner is: Stacybuckeye! Congratulations, Stacy! Please send me an email with your mailing address and [...]
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