I have always been fueled by stories. The first story that fed me was The Wizard of Oz. CBS would air it once a year and, from one year old, I would watch. The concept of fiction meant nothing to me. Dorothy and her friends and the Wicked Witch with her winged monkey were as real […]
The Raging Storm (Two Rivers #3) by Ann CleevesDate Published: September 5, 2023Date Read: August 12, 2023 Grade: A Ann Cleeves has been long established as a strong mystery writer, and this third entry in her Two Rivers series further cements her reputation. While the mystery here was strong, that isn’t what struck me about […]
Learned by Heart by Emma DonoghueDate Published: August 29, 2023Date Read: July 31, 2023 Grade: A In retrospect, and especially after reading the Author’s note after this novel, I realize that I was more than a little ignorant about the subject–or the love interest of the subject–of this book. I had heard of a show […]
California Golden by Melanie BenjaminDate published: August 8, 2023Date finished: July 20, 2023 Grade: C+ Everything about the title and description of this book screams summer, so it made sense that I would pick it up for a summer read. What could be more fitting than a trip back to the 60s and California surf […]
The Hike by Lucy ClarkePublication Date: April 27, 2023Date Finished: April 23, 2023Grade: B Four British women head North to backpack in Norway as a girls’ getaway. We have Liz, the leader and most put-together of the group. Maggie is a struggling single mother with a heart of gold. Helena has a carefree lifestyle of […]
The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody EpsteinDate published: July 18, 2023Date finished: June 27, 2023 Grade: C Jennifer Cody Epstein is an author I’ve read, and had success with, in the past. When I came across this title, set in a mental hospital treating women for “hysteria,” it sounded right up my alley. Unfortunately, […]
The Girl’s Last Cry (Detective Lexi Bennett #2) by Alison BelshamDate published: July 11, 2023Date finished: July 8. 2023 Grade: A Alison Belsham knows how to steal time. Once again, I sat down to read for “a bit,” before I knew it, it was late at night, and I was finished with this book. As […]
Crook O’ Lune (Robert MacDonald #38) by E.C.R. LoracDate originally published: January 1, 1953Reprint publishing date: July 11, 2023Grade: C+ This is the first E.C.R. Lorac that I’ve read, which I think plays an important role in my thoughts about this book. While I don’t believe that reading previous books is necessary for the plot […]
Body Grammar by Jules OhmanDate published: June 14, 2022Date finished: June 30, 2023 Grade: A+ I heard a few things about this book when it was first published a year ago, but very little since then. When I found it on a display of local authors at Powell’s, I picked it up on a whim. […]
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie EarlingDate published: May 23, 2023Date finished: June 23, 2023 Grade: A Many words describe this book, but I want to start with this one: Difficult. This book is difficult on many levels, but three seemed the highest hurdles. The first is the language: Earling explains in a […]
The Girls on Chalk Hill (Detective Lexi Bennett #1) by Alison BelshamDate published: June 26, 2023Date finished: June 11, 2023 Grade: A Sometimes books are excellent because they are the best at what they are–they aren’t anything that subverts tropes or turns readers on their heads. They take a genre and excel at it. This […]
A Web of Stories 