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  • Tell Me Everything

    Tell Me Everything

    Erica Krause, 2022 Non-fiction, Personal Memoir, Crime Erica Krause does not have a memorable face, yet everyone thinks they may know her from somewhere. Complete strangers walk up to her and ask where they know her from. Fellow shoppers share secrets they have told no one else. This happened in a bookstore and a job…

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  • Comfort and Joy

    Comfort and Joy

    Kristin Hannah, 2005 Joy Candellaro has always loved Christmas. Until this one. She is recently divorced and her sister, with whom she was always close, has further broken her heart. Without these two relationships, life seems to have no point. Impulsively, Joy buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the Northwest. Things do…

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  • Christmas Stories Worth Reading

    Christmas Stories Worth Reading

    Eva’s Choices My first choice is called Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck. I was introduced to this book when I joined Weston’s family. It is a simple story of a young boy wanting to come up with a gift for his father. He doesn’t have much money and time is running short to…

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  • House of the Seven Gables (From Two Angles)

    House of the Seven Gables (From Two Angles)

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Hepzibah Pyncheon is so desperately poor she must open a little shop on the lower level of her ancestral home, known as the House of the Seven Gables. She refuses all help from her wealthy cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. About the same time, Hepzibah’s brother, Clifford comes home after serving a thirty-year…

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  • Books for Your Fall TBR

    Books for Your Fall TBR

    For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.-Katarina Bivald, in The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Are we telling you that you have to read these books? Do you…

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  • The Yorkshire Shepherdess

    The Yorkshire Shepherdess

    Amanda Owen, 2014 The Yorkshire Shepherdess is a one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is a simple story about family and farm. It reminded me that the mundane every day things we encounter can be made interesting if we keep the right perspective. Life doesn’t need to be…

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