These are the reviews that I dread. I try to find something positive about each book I read, but sometimes a book just doesn’t fly for me. Still, my plan is to give a fair description here so you, the reader, can decide. Perhaps you will find a book here that becomes one of your…
This was one of those books that just appeared, unsolicited, in my mailbox. While I always give those surprise titles a glance, I usually don’t have time to read and review them in addition to the ones I’ve already committed to. Add to that my suspicion of modern novels and it’s strange that I even…
The Lost Short Stories These tales written very early in her career (1926-1932), long before Rebecca. Some were published much later, some not at all. It’s fascinating to see the writer she would become taking shape in these early stories. Sometimes they style is slightly more simplistic as though they were first drafts or rough…
Set in 1950s rural Indiana, this debut novel is told from the first-person by Callie Anne, primarily in flash back. Now an adult, she is drawn back to the summer she turned 11. Her memories are recalled in the mindset of a child who now has an adult perspective. Her father is the manager…