Tag: Books
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A couple book reviews (and what to do on trips)
When Mischief Came to Town Katrina Nannestad, 2015 Children’s fiction The year is 1911. Orphaned 10 year old Inge Marie is sent to live with her grandmother on a remote island in the village of Bornholm, Denmark. Her enthusiasm and sweet outlook ends up changing the climate of the town. She bring joy and laughter…
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Reading Dilemmas
This is an article that Liz and I wrote together awhile back. It still has good bookish information in it. Liz is in regular font and Eva is in italics. At the beginning of 2021 I made the resolution to read only fiction this year. My inspiration came from an article about how to choose…
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5 Reasons To Read Middle Grade Books As An Adult
I love to read kid’s books. Recently I was assigned the job of proofreader at the school library. In the last few months, I’ve read quite a few books for middle graders and was delighted to rediscover my enjoyment of them. These books are written by adults, so it seems likely adults would enjoy reading…
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Home
Penny Parkes, 2021 Fiction Anna Wilson is a professional housesitter. She steps into people’s lives watching their houses, pets and occasionally their neighbors. All she really wants is a home of her own. One filled with love and laughter and happy memories. She grew up in foster care so she doesn’t have a baseline to…
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The Woods Were Full of Men
Irma Lee Emerson, 1963, 242 pages, Memoir Irma Lee Emerson tended to fall flat on her face. Her four sisters had gone out into the world to make happy marriages and her three brothers to work in worthy professions. She tried and failed at various occupations. One day she escaped to the zoo for a…
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Spare
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, 2023 Autobiography It is with mixed feelings that I read this book. It was “forced” on me by my fellow book clubber, otherwise I may not have tackled it. It is a very long book with many details about royal life. It starts with the death of Princess Diana.…
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A Guilded Gotham Mystery Series
Kate Belli Mystery Book One: Deception by Gaslight Book Two: Betrayal on the Bowery Book Three: Treachery on Tenth Street Book Four: Opulence and Ashes Set in Manhatten in the Gilded Age, these books are light cozy mysteries. After Genevieve Stewart, whose family is part of Mrs. Astor’s famed 400, was jilted by her fiance,…
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Author Spotlight: Dervla McTiernan
Born in 1977 in Cork, Ireland Ms McTeirnan grew up in different cities in Ireland including Dublin and Limerick. She studied to be a solicitor (lawyer in our language), and worked in her own practice for 12 years. She is married to Kenny. They have two children, a boy and a girl. Ireland hit a…
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The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 2012, literary fiction, 334 pages Victoria Jones spent an isolated childhood in the foster care system. During an interval of relative calm, she learned the meanings of flowers used during Victorian times to convey romantic expression. She finds them more useful in communicating her fears and mistrust of others. Now she is eighteen,…
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Coming Clean
Kimberly Rae Miller, 2013 Biography If you could see Ms Miller now in her beautifully tidy apartment with its sparkling countertops and clean floors, you would never guess that she grew up in a junk filled home. She new, growing up, that things were different in her home. She was embarrassed, always meeting friends at…
So She Reads 