Recently I reviewed Stephen King’s latest novel, 11/22/63, and tried to convey that this fantastic story is not King’s typical horror fare. The same definitely cannot be said for Mile 81, a novella recently released on audio that highlights King’s penchant for vehicles and heroic kids. Along the Maine Turnpike, there’s a rest stop at…
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Home Front, with giveaway
The War in Iraq finally ended late last year, with the last of U.S. troops leaving Iraq by mid-December. But the soldiers who served their country are forever altered by their time in Iraq. Kristin Hannah’s inspiration for Home Front came while watching the nightly news, as troops came home to their families. Jolene Zarkades…
Julia’s Child
Julia Bailey, like most new mothers, wanted to feed her children healthy, organic, nutritional food that they also actually liked to eat. She perfected her recipes and started Julia’s Child, a health food company that provides snacks and meals geared toward toddlers. Along with her only employee, Marta, Julia shares office space with other small…
The Perfect Name For You, with giveaway
Barbara Houghteling is co-partner of Birthday Keepsakes, an online baby keepsakes website. When she came up with the idea for a personalized storybook, her daughter Jana, then a senior in high school, read her mom’s verses and decided she could do better. The Houghtelings worked with an artist to create the illustrations that accompany the…
First You Try Everything
A novel about a marriage dissolving is not the type of reading material I normally gravitate to, and I have to say that the 50 page rule was under serious consideration for First You Try Everything. But before I knew it I was way past page 50 and diving in head-first. Evvie and Ben have…
Come In and Cover Me
Once in a while a book comes along that focuses on a subject I know absolutely nothing about, and incorporates that material into a story that both intrigues and educates the reader. Come In and Cover Me is one of those books. Ren is an archaeologist in search of bowls made by an artist from…
On Reading: No More Number Goals
Last year, Dawn wrote an On Reading about the ups and downs of setting reading goals. I’ve always set goals to read a certain number of books in a year, and each year it’s gone up when I’ve blown away the goal. This year I set the lofty goal of 100 books. Last year I…
11/22/63
Stephen King has written over 50 books, all of them bestsellers, and most of them horror. But before you click off to the next review, let me try to persuade you that 11/22/63 is not typical Stephen King. King has a tendency to include too many characters, too much fluff in the middle, too much…
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