Secrets and the inability to share them create a tense and wonderful mystery story set in the English countryside during World War II. Farleigh is the ancestral home of the Sutton family. One morning a soldier dressed in Royal West Kent uniform is found dead in the fields of the grand home. His parachute failed. When examined more... Continue Reading →
Serious Series Love: Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
I read the first of this series by accident. I picked it up years and years ago intending to read the wonderful Half Magic by Edward Eager but I got flustered at the library and couldn't remember the name of the book. This was 2005 or 2006 and long before I had a smartphone so... Continue Reading →
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
This morning I wrote a long blog post about how much I loved reading this book. I waxed poetically about my love for Drag Queens, my need for better self confidence in a bathing suit and how all around impressed I was with the main character Willowdean. I posted it. Then I worried about my... Continue Reading →
Audible: Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
I do not naturally excel at audible learning. So, for me, a book on tape or audible story needs to be amazing. It has to have all the markings of an incredible story and be read to me in a way that keeps me focused enough to follow along. It is a high bar. My two favorite types... Continue Reading →
The Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
This delightful second Kopp sisters novel gives us another peek into the historically rooted adventures of Constance, Norma and Fluerette Kopp. In Girl Waits With a Gun, the women took their first steps outside of their country home and into the adventure, and danger, of a changing world. Now, in The Lady Cop Makes Trouble, the women... Continue Reading →
