What the Heart Knows by Mara Purl is my book review for the August meeting of “The Book Review Club” I was invited to participate on the blog tour for Days of Our Lives soap opera actress, screenwriter, and author Mara Purl and was given a copy of Book 1 of the Milford-Haven novels, What [...]
An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance – from MeganChance.Com: For young Mrs. Lucy Carelton, it’s becoming harder and harder to be the perfect wife. While other women revel in the rigors of the Season, she feels overwrought and increasingly suffocated. Her husband, William, his beautiful, fragile wife to doctor after doctor, with no success. But [...]
Wandering through my local Borders last month, I couldn’t find any books in stock that I was looking for – all new releases that should definitely be on the shelves – but that’s the state of my local Borders these days. Determined to bring home a book, though, I stumbled upon Me and Mr. Darcy, [...]
My first book review for “The Book Review Club” in 2011 is Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chestertonby Dale Ahlquist. G.K. Chesterton, who lived from 1874-1936, was also a Catholic convert. He was a journalist and author of many books, including several novels. The American Chesterton Society calls hims the “saint of the blogsphere” [...]
My book review for the November meeting of “The Book Review Club” is The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich. The Social Network movie was based on the book. Written like a novel based on a lot of stories pieced together, it’s a fast read – I read it on the flight [...]
My book review for the October meeting of “The Book Review Club” is Good Enough to Eat by Stacey Ballis. I’ve been waiting to read another Stacey Ballis for a long time – so long I was wondering if she had given up writing and was appearing on TV shows such as Rachel Ray on [...]
I first heard of Lisa Heidke and her latest chick lit novel Lucy Springer Gets Even from Dorothy Thompson’s Pump Up Your Book Promotion. And because I have a policy of only reviewing books I can recommend or think I can recommend, I agreed to review this book for the July meeting of “The Book [...]
