Synopsis: It’s 1957. Marion works for a Memphis record company, roaming the South in search of great songs from Black bands. He buys their songs to be re-recorded by White artists up north. Marion has two families, a White family in Meridian, MS, wife Christine and sons Lloyd and Linden and a Black family in […]
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel on July 6, 2021 Genres: Fiction / Historical / World War II, Fiction / War & Military, Fiction / Women Pages: 384 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel was a book I absolutely loved and couldn’t put down. Set […]
A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather was first published in Everybody’s Magazine in February 1904. In 1906, it appeared in Cather’s first published collection of short stories, The Troll Garden. A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather I received one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined […]
A Seance in 1887 I am a natural born skeptic. So, I wasn’t scared when I met my first psychic medium at a birthday party in 2005. I dismissed her insistence that an older man’s spirit wanted to talk with me. “His name began with ‘S’,” she said concentrating, “it sounds like ‘Sam’ but that’s […]
Infrequent Frequencies, Rare Resonance by G.E. Poole Genre: Science / Spirituality ISBN: 9781923156562 Print Length: 488 pages Buy from Amazon Buy from Bookshop Reviewed by Kathy L. Brown Discover your role in the cosmos with this fascinating intersection of science and faith. Infrequent Frequencies, Rare Resonance takes on the biggest of topics: life and death, […]
The Ascenditure by Robyn Dabney Genre: Fantasy / Feminist ISBN: 9781646034758 Print Length: 324 pages Publisher: Fitzroy Books Buy from Amazon Buy from Bookshop Reviewed by Lindsay Crandall A stunning feminist mountaineering fantasy Klarke Ascher will have to pass a near-impossible test if she wants to earn herself a spot as an Ascenditure—to join an elite […]
Tangled Up In You by Christina Lauren on June 25, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read […]
Synopsis: DON’T MISS YOUR SECOND CHANCE. It’s not often that we get to try again, cuz life very seldom deals a second chance.Most people don’t even notice when they get one dropped in their lap like a miracle.But I noticed. I’ve lost Cassidy once, and come hell or high water, I won’t make the same […]
The Hate Game by Gary Trew Genre: Memoir ISBN: 9781738245413 Print Length: 288 pages Buy from Amazon Buy from Bookshop Reviewed by Elizabeth Zender A moving memoir about a young man learning what it means to be himself In 1972, eleven-year-old Gary Trew began school at The Knoll School for Boys, nicknamed “Knollditz”by its pupils. […]
I’m an immigrant kid, more or less twice over. My parents emigrated from Brazil to England, bringing the culture of their country with them. There they birthed my older sister and me. We lived there until I was five, then off my family went to the United States, where we’ve lived ever since. By all […]