Fiction

July 2, 2009

  • Books on Screen: Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Last week I had a very fun grown-up sleepover, and we decided that we should watch some movies — ideally some that our husbands wouldn't want to watch. (…)

  • Healing Waters

    Healing Waters by Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn is not a novel that's easily described. I guess I could label it part mystery, part drama, part romance. (…)

June 30, 2009

  • Isle of Swords

    I confess that I am not a huge fan of pirates or stories of pirates. My little two year old, on the other hand, delights in singing, "YO HO! YO HO! (…)

June 29, 2009

  • Jillian Dare

    Last October, our Classics Bookclub read Jane Eyre. (…)

  • Sometimes A Light Surprises

    And so it falls to me to attempt to review a book I really, really liked by an author I really, really like. (…)

June 27, 2009

  • The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos

    The tropical Venezuelan setting calls to mind a heat and humid environment for the characters of The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos, the new novel by Margaret Mascarenhas, but it's the voices and passion of the characters that give this book its true headiness. (…)

June 26, 2009

  • What-the-Dickens

    What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy is the first book that I have read by Gregory Macguire. (…)

June 24, 2009

  • Face of Betrayal

    I don’t know about you, but though I love the literary delights of a good Southern story, not to mention the timeless classic, I also really like to indulge in a suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat, stay-up-at-night, roller-coaster-ride of a read. (…)

June 23, 2009

  • Four Wives

    Four Wives is Wendy Walker's first novel (she edited Chicken Soup for the Soul Power Moms, linked to my review). From the opening chapters, I was drawn into the lives of these four women. (…)

June 20, 2009

June 19, 2009

  • The Lace Makers of Glenmara

    Novels often take us into stories of transformation, with characters poised on a precipice of a major life change in the opening pages. (…)

June 18, 2009

  • Books on Screen: The Count of Monte Cristo

    In his Emmy-nominated portrayal of "Edmond Dantès," Richard Chamberlain demonstrates the utmost self-control and patience in his epic quest for revenge and redemption in the 1975 version of The Count of Monte Cristo. (…)

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    I love the classics. Though I must admit, as I stand in front of the classics display at the bookstore, I am a little ashamed at how few I've actually read. (…)

June 17, 2009

  • Journey to the Well

    Of the women in Scripture, I've always identified most with the woman at the well. Not that I've had five husbands. (…)

June 16, 2009

  • Dating Da Vinci

    Dating da Vinci by Malena Lott is a well-written story that examines friendship, starting over, sibling rivalry, self-confidence and more. (…)

June 15, 2009

June 12, 2009

  • Stealing Home

    I haven't always been a baseball fan. Then my daughter started playing softball last year and fell in love with the game. (…)

June 8, 2009

  • The Thirteenth Tale

    I know we've done a lot of talking here at 5 Minutes for Books about stretching your reading habits. (…)

June 6, 2009

  • Thanks for the Memories

    According to Wikipedia, Chick Lit can be defined as "genre fiction within women's fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties, generally dealing with the issues of modern women humorously and lightheartedly." Cecelia Ahern's latest offering, Thanks for the Memories, fits squarely in this definition. (…)

June 5, 2009

  • How Do I Love Thee?

    Though I attended Baylor University and nearly daily walked past the beautiful library on campus dedicated to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, I knew little or nothing of either poet nor of their romance. (…)

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