February was a month of extremes. I either held onto a book for dear life or dropped it like a bad habit. There was no middle ground. Thankfully, the majority of what I read was outstanding with 6 of the 11 novels I read being 4 stars or higher. DNFs are painful, but that disappointment aside, it was a great month. This was definitely a case of my bored mind ... Read More...
The Angel Maker by Alex North
Anyone else dealing with blah reading recently? I don’t know whether it’s the joy (not!) of dealing with tax prep, but I’ve DNFed two of the last 3 books I started. So, I thought it necessary to wrap up the week with the one book I could not turn away from. If you need reading that will pull you out of your head and onto the page then look no further than The Angel Maker by ... Read More...
This Other Eden
In 1911 there was a small island off the coast of Maine comprised of a group of families who were the descendants of the island’s original 1792 settlers—an escaped slave, his Irish wife, and later, other refugees from society. The island is still there, but its inhabitants are long gone. Paul Harding’s novel, This Other Eden, is the elegiac recounting of their history, lives, ... Read More...
The Writing Retreat
I’m a pushover for fiction about writers writing so The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz had the basic ingredients to draw me in. Alex has dreamed of being an author, but has had writer’s block since the unfortunate and very public shattering of her relationship with her best friend. Now, both have been invited to a prestigious retreat held by renowned feminist horror author, ... Read More...
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
I’ve had my ups and downs with the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny, but I’m beginning another week with another big claim: her latest, A World of Curiosities, is the best one yet. In it, Penny mashes up the past and the present to reinforce the history of friends and foes alike. The past is represented by going back to the scene of a woman’s murder, when Chief ... Read More...
Exit the Actress: A Novel
I’m sticking with historical fiction this week. Monday was mythological history with Stone Blind but now I’ve got a real bit of history set in 17th century England. Exit the Actress is by Priya Parmar and is the story of Ellen Gwynn, a poor commoner in 1600s London who goes on to become one of the world’s first celebrities and King Charles II’s longest lasting affair. Both ... Read More...
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