Playing Catch-up
Here are some short summaries of books I have read recently. With one exception, all of these have been audiobooks. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir This is a great […]
Here are some short summaries of books I have read recently. With one exception, all of these have been audiobooks. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir This is a great […]
The Unknown Beloved is an imaginative telling of the criminal investigation into the Torso Murders committed in Cleveland, Ohio during the 1930s. The “unknown beloved” were the nameless victims, with […]
The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock is about the mother-daughter relationship between Alice Young, a World War II widow, and 13-year-old Penn. The story begins in 1945, […]
Bluebird is the latest historical fiction novel by one of my favorite Canadian authors, Genevieve Graham. “Bluebirds” was the nickname given by soldiers to the World War I Canadian nurses […]
Bonnie Garmus has done a wonderful job in presenting an unorthodox protagonist with her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry. Meet Elizabeth Zott, a 1960s woman who loves being a chemist […]
Susan, Peggy, and Valeri are the winners as selected by my granddaughter, Sophie. Please email kerrin@booksandrecipes.com with your mailing address. Congratulations to Diane Kelly on the publication of her newest […]
The Light Through The Leaves by Glendy Vanderah is a contemporary fiction story about an infant (Viola/Raven) who is kidnapped when her mother (Ellis) accidentally leaves her car seat in […]
I knew within the first three or four pages of Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer that I wasn’t going to like the protagonist and when I don’t like the protagonist, […]
The title phrase in Robert Dugoni’s The World Played Chess is a take-off on the old saying “You are playing checkers while they are playing chess”. In other words, you […]
The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith is a lovely story about a daughter trying to make peace with her father after her mother’s unexpected death. The daughter just […]