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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
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On Thursday, August 26th, Booking through Thursday asked: If you’re not enjoying a book, will you stop mid-way? Or do you push through to the end? What makes you decide to stop? I try very hard always to finish books. There are some that have slow beginnings, but then surprise me pleasantly once I’m partway [...]
A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand This novel is both the seventh novel the author wrote, and the seventh of her novels that I read, but that happened purely by coincidence. I hadn’t read any of the others in order of publication date. Unlike many of the other protagonists in Hilderbrand’s work, Claire Danner Crispin, [...]
Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright When author Kim Wright offered me a copy of her novel, Love in Mid Air to review, I had to say yes, because even though there’s an abundance of contemporary women’s fiction available on the market, there aren’t many really good stories where the protagonist is around my [...]
I’ve been reading a lot of Elin Hilderbrand’s work this summer. In fact, I think I now own all of her Nantucket novels, though I still have at least three left to read. These novels, which are not a series, but are all set on the island of Nantucket, are easing my yen for the [...]
Hope in a Jar by Beth Harbison St. Martin’s Griffin, 368 pages Buy it from Amazon >> When I saw Beth Harbison’s novel Hope in a Jar staring at me from the summer reading table at the bookstore, I didn’t connect the title with the Philosophy product at all, mainly because I haven’t used Philosophy [...]
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand St. Martin’s Griffin, 336 pages Buy from Amazon >> The Blue Bistro may be the fourth of author Elin Hilderbrand’s novels set on the island of Nantucket, but it’s only the second I’ve read. Thankfully, her novels are not a series, as much as they are a collection. Most [...]
The House on Oyster Creek Heidi John Schmidt NAL Trade, 368 pages Get it from Amazon >> I picked up The House on Oyster Creek because the title and cover blurb intrigued me. It ended up being nothing like what I expected, but that’s not a bad thing. In this lyrically written novel, you can [...]
Addition by Toni Jordan Polebridge Press (Harper San Francisco), 272 pages Get it at Amazon >> You’re not supposed to judge books by their covers, I know, but it was the cover of Toni Jordan’s novel Addition that hooked me, with its pretty rows of brightly colored objects. Then I read the back, and thought, [...]
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells Harper, 416 pages Get it at Amazon >> I don’t remember when I was first introduced to Rebecca Wells’ work, though I know I read The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood years before there was ever a movie. Maybe even decades. It should, therefore [...]
