🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 by W. Somerset Maugham Recommend to lovers of literary classics and more cerebral fiction. Reading this story felt rather like comfort food. Not because of the subject matter. The story had very little to do with Christmas. But because it's just so pleasing to fall into the written arms of someone who knows what … Continue reading Book Review: Christmas Holiday
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Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
🌟🌟🌟 By Douglas Adams Recommend to Sci-fi lovers I don't know if I'm the best person review this book. I'm not usually a huge Sci-fi fan. I get bogged down in the made up names and get distracted by technology details that date the work. It was no different with this book. The story follows … Continue reading Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Book Review: Radium Girls by Kate Moore
🌟🌟 & 1/2 Recommend to history lovers. I've had my eye on this book for some time, and I was excited to start it, but the reality was a bit disappointing. The story recounts what happened to the female dial-painters who worked in factories painting luminous watch dials with radium-laced paint. It is a story … Continue reading Book Review: Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Book Review: Savage Country by Robert Olmstead
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Recommend to western lovers and lovers of stories with darker themes. Every once in a while I get a hankerin' to read a western. It's not my preferred genre, but I have enjoyed most of my forays into the literary wild west. This story follows a woman's quest to keep her land and home … Continue reading Book Review: Savage Country by Robert Olmstead
Review: The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
🌟🌟🌟& 1/2 Recommend to lovers of Philosophical suspense (IF there is such a thing!) I wanted to give the story a full four stars, but there were a few things that hung me up. The book is about a neuro-psychologist who falls in love with her amnesiac subject. The man can remember all of his … Continue reading Review: The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
Book Review: On Writing by Stephen King
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Recommend to writers everywhere! I have a confession! *whispers softly, hand cupped around my mouth* I've never read a Stephen King book before. I've never been a fan of horror, and I've always associated the section of my library where King resided as the Dark Side of the library (quite literally). However I have … Continue reading Book Review: On Writing by Stephen King
Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Recommend to those who wish to strive for something more First of all, there is a danger inherent in the teaching of man's "nothingbutness", the theory that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions, or the product of heredity and environment. Such a view of man makes … Continue reading Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning
Book Review: The Searcher by Tana French
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Recommend to mystery lovers who enjoy some flesh on their characters I always enjoy reading Tana French novels. She has a way of making her characters and settings really come alive. This story is no different. The story follows a retired (early) Chicago police officer who moves to Ireland to escape a bad working … Continue reading Book Review: The Searcher by Tana French
Book Review: Caught Dead Handed by Carol Perry
Recommend to Cozy Mystery Lovers Everywhere 🌟🌟🌟 I give the story three stars for general readability, the quickness of the story movement, and for how aptly the writing embodies its genre. The story follows an out of work TV personality who, while on a job interview, finds the local TV station psychic dead and subsequently … Continue reading Book Review: Caught Dead Handed by Carol Perry
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