Thank you NetGalley and Make Waves Press for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Katie just got a whole new start to life – her daughter started her freshman year of college and, instead of having an empty nest, she’s starting life as a newly married woman in Florida with … Continue reading The Cicada Spring
Jewel, Minnesota, is a quiet town. Sheriff Dern has his fair share of trouble to deal with, but it’s mostly kids with too much time on their hands. That is, until Memorial Day 1958 when Jimmy Quinn’s body was found floating in the Alabaster River. As one of the most powerful men in the county, … Continue reading The River We Remember
Patrick has had two loves in his life – his boyfriend Joe and his best friend Sarah. A few years ago, a car crash ripped Joe from him, and left Patrick injured both physically and emotionally as he grappled with the shunning from Joe’s family. Patrick withdrew from the world, leaving Hollywood and his friends … Continue reading The Guncle
You may know Kate White for her mystery releases like If Looks Could Kill and The Secrets You Keep, but she had a long career in publishing and magazines before taking on the fiction world. White pulls on that experience in the business world to give sage advice to women just getting their start in … Continue reading The Gutsy Girl Handbook
In January 2016, you couldn’t turn on the news without hearing about the people of Flint, Michigan, and their fight for clean drinking water. The nearly 200-year-old city was made famous for being the birthplace of General Motors, but, in more recent years, had faced a budget crisis that left city officials doing what all … Continue reading Poisoned Water
We are fresh off the Memorial Day holiday which signals the unofficial start of the Summer season where I live. It also means May is coming to a close and we are nearly halfway through another year! May had us celebrating the moms in our lives and Asian and Pacific Islander authors, while June will … Continue reading May Recap & June Prompts
When I was young, I stayed most weekends and summers with my grandparents. They had a small vegetable garden near Atlanta that had been in the family for 2 generations by then. I would hear family talk about my grandfather’s time as a soldier in the European theatre of World War II and his brother’s … Continue reading The Greatest Generation Speaks
Thank you NetGalley and Gallery Books for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Becks Saint James is legendary. Well, at least her dinner parties are! The gatherings are the talk of the town from the guest list to the food to the conversation. Becks and her husband Townsend are the … Continue reading A Happier Life
The Summerly mansion on the quaint island of Winthrop has been a place of heartbreak in recent years. So many families lost sons in World War II, and as other families’ sons return home, their grief is renewed. But it is a different grief that tears the island apart at the end the summer. The … Continue reading The Beach at Summerly
According to Wikipedia, Memorial Day was first celebrated in 1868 to honor the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. It was updated in 1971 to its current observance on the last Monday in May and to honor all who have been killed in military service. I have always looked at this holiday through … Continue reading Memorial Day Reads
