Just south of Miami off the tip of Key Biscayne sits a unique group of houses. Built on stilts in the bay, these houses were the getaway community for Miami elite and formed a legacy of parties, gambling, and more dating back as far as the 1930’s. That’s exactly what Frances was looking for when … Continue reading Stiltsville
We are 9 weeks into 2024 and our inaugural reading challenge! How are you doing with the prompts? Any fun new reads you wouldn't have read before? That's my favorite part of a challenge like this! This month, I reviewed 13 books - 7 audiobooks and 6 physical copies. Let's take a look back the reviews … Continue reading February Recap & March Prompts
Janie Crawford is no stranger to hard times, or good. She’s been married now three times and each man was so different from the next. The one thing they all had in common? They took Janie away from her current situation with a promise of love and a better life. Will that promise be enough … Continue reading Their Eyes Were Watching God
Iris has only been in the city long enough to find a job, a place to live, and an amazing boss/landlord/friend who has taken her under his wing. Her mother recently passed and she ended a bad relationship, so a fresh start was in store. When she arrived in New York, Iris didn’t have much … Continue reading A Winter in New York
Black Dog Bay, Delaware, just made headlines when it was featured in a travel magazine as the place to go if you need to move on from a breakup. And that’s just what Summer Benson needs – to move on from her breakup and her life. Her boyfriend just left her after planning to propose … Continue reading Cure for the Common Breakup
For over 200 years, rumors of swirled around Thomas Jefferson’s name about torrid love affairs first with a married artist in Paris, and later with his slave Sally Hemings. Sally, who happened to be his wife’s half-sister, has been the center of much controversy, especially after her descendants began to publicize their potential connection to … Continue reading Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: An American controversy
Thank you to the author for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Herbert is your average janitor. He cleans up after people in the offices and labs he’s assigned to, carts the waste out to the dump, and does it all again the next day. He and his wife have … Continue reading The Secret Order of the Scepter & Gavel
Demetrius Clarke just arrived in town. He grew up here, but hasn’t been back in decades. Tolland, Connecticut, has changed: more houses and businesses replaced. Most shockingly, there’s been a murder. That never would have happened when he was a kid! This close-knit community isn’t helping the investigation along and some would even say they … Continue reading Murder in Tolland
Modern day Americans would quickly answer Hershey’s or Mars, maybe even Nestle, if asked to name the biggest chocolate manufacturers in the world. Most wouldn’t be able to tell you where the world’s chocolate originates, or even the difference between milk chocolate and semi-sweet, let alone who started the chocolate revolution of the early 1900’s. … Continue reading Chocolate Wars
For several decades, there’s been an increasing trend of personality and skills tests used either in the hiring process or in team building workshops for many corporations. In my 20-year career, I’ve been asked to participate in several different tests – most of which showed the same type of data like my communication style, my … Continue reading Strengthsfinder 2.0
