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Orphaned at a young age and possessing a troubled history of otherworldly visitations, sleepwalking and dubious Irish heritage, Mina Murray has risen to become a respected governess, engaged to an up and coming solicitor, Jonathan Harker. She expects to love this one man for the rest of her life and anticipates raising a family with [...]
Anyone who has glimpsed A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book, by Charles Fischer & Bruce Foster knows that it is a delight. I was on my way out when this package arrived, so I took the box with me to meet a friend at Starbucks, and I had barely gotten it out of the box [...]
I first heard about Laura Lippman when Trish from Hey Lady read What The Dead Know, and loved it so much that she started the Laura Lippman Reading Challenge. Since then I have read countless reviews on book blogs full of veritable plaudits on Lippman’s work. I love a good mystery and I am always [...]
Two years ago, In Hovering Flight was my first introduction to Joyce Hinnefeld and Unbridled Books. Getting to know each was a wonderful treat. Hinnefeld is a rich and observant writer and Unbridled seems to take great care in choosing its authors. I have found that their books, even if they don’t go on to [...]
Evie is a lonely girl, who hangs on the fringes at school, making up stories about Jonah Luks, an older guy on whom she has a crush and encounters every weekend on her paper route. Evie’s life takes a different turn when Zabet McCabe, an elementary school acquaintance is found murdered in the woods, and [...]
Set in 1960′s Nashville, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, follows the aforementioned Bezellia as she navigates her sometimes treacherous adolescence. Burdened by the weight of her illustrious family name, and the heft of traditional southern society, which she at times finds onerous, Bezellia is one trying to find her own way. Her relationship with [...]
In So Cold The River, by Michael Koryta, Eric Shaw is a failed filmmaker, newly separated from his wife, and in the process of establishing himself as a videographer of the deceased- creating short pieces to show at their funerals. He has always had the knack for sussing out hidden truths, and that talent calls [...]
Frankenstein, for me, fell short of fully realizing the ideas that it set out to explore in the story told by Mary Shelly. In Frankenstein’s Monster, however, Susan Heyboer O’Keefe builds on the foundation set forth by Shelly in Frankenstein, and in being free from the creation/education of monster story, is able to delve more [...]
I think it was this series, 5 Paintings in Edinburgh That Might Make Ian Rankin Pull Off A Heist, on the Reagan Arthur Books Blog that finally pushed me to track down a copy of his book and give it to read. Though normally not a seasonal reader, late summer and fall have seem me [...]
Abbe Deighton is a woman on the edge. Struggling with her role as mother to an active toddler, and wife to an embattled pastor in Hawaii (who is intent on running programs which do not endear him to church leaders), she is increasingly at the end of her rope with everyone. When Abbe and Greg’s [...]