It was as I was nearing the finish of Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, The Sandcastle Girls, that I was struck by how insulated and sheltered we are in the United States. I say that with a full understanding of recent events and their horrors. What I mean, is that at no time in any of our lives have we had to worry that our country or even our state or city was going to be taken ... Read More...
The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton has been carefully wooing readers in the realm of mystery since 2008. With her latest release she not only cements her relationship with existing readers but will draw in a whole new crowd of followers. The Secret Keeper is one of those marvelous books that, once started, is almost impossible to put down. It is with the self-absorption of youth that all children ... Read More...
Wicked Pleasures
When it comes to British multi-generational family dramas no one does it better than Penny Vincenzi. Her books are Dynasty and Dallas on the page. In her latest, Wicked Pleasures, she follows the Praeger family through two generations and enough intrigue, romance and backstabbing for even the most jaded reader. The novel moves from the 1960s through the 1980s and travels, most ... Read More...
The Bathing Women
In a family with dignity, there was no room for “other things”, no matter how profoundly someone in this family was shamed, or how deeply the person suffered. The Bathing Women takes place from the mid-1960s to present day in the city of Fuan, China. It begins with the sisters, Tiao and Fan, being left in a small apartment by their parents, Wu and Yixun, who have been ... Read More...
The Bad Miss Bennet
The last time we saw the troublesome Miss Lydia Bennet, she was smirking triumphantly at her sisters while being driven away by her new husband, the bounder Mr. Wickham. Now she has resurfaced, a widow at the ripe old age of nineteen, and while she mourns her husband’s passing (not really) she’s ready to go after the life she feels she deserves. And so begins the romp that is ... Read More...
Sweet Tooth
Sweet Tooth is about Serena Frome, a pretty girl with a mind for math and love for reading. Raised in a quiet town and religious family her childhood is unremarkable. As she prepares for university she wants to study English but her determined mother decides that there will be nothing so fluffy as English in her daughter’s future but that she will study math and go on to a ... Read More...
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