40 Love: A Novel is about a group of friends who get together at a country home for an elaborately planned tennis party (It actually is a re-issue of her first novel, originally called The Tennis Party). For some reason this setting made me feel like I was in an Agatha Christie novel (or maybe…
Category Archives: Fiction
The Underdogs
My nine-year-old son loves to read, but he gravitates to nonfiction more than fiction. He’ll read about sports for hours, but is picky when it comes to novels. I am constantly on the lookout for fiction titles that will grab his attention, and Mike Lupica’s books are winners every time. Mike Lupica’s newest story, The…
Only Time Will Tell
Jeffrey Archer is known for his trilogies that cover decades of time and he’s outdone himself with the new Clifton Chronicles. The saga will span 5 books and 100 years, following a man named Henry Clifton. The first novel, Only Time Will Tell, encompasses Henry’s childhood in Bristol, England, covering the years 1920 to 1939….
Mothers and Daughters
I was drawn into Mothers and Daughters right away. From the first paragraph of the first chapter, I was touched and impressed by author Rae Meadows’ insight into marriage and motherhood. I love reading a novel that makes me feel like I’m really connecting with the characters (or perhaps it’s the author??). However, because this…
Telling Lies
Telling Lies opens with magazine editor Laurel Imperiole, on vacation in Italy, bumping into a man as she’s leaving the Botticelli gallery. It takes a few minutes, but she recognizes him as Jeffrey Sargasso, a man she thought had died 10 years earlier in the Twin Towers on 9-11, the husband of a good friend….
The Call
Yannick Murphy’s The Call is one of the most unique books I’ve read recently. The novel is laid out in the format of a veterinarian’s call log book. Each entry states the nature of the call, the vet’s actions, the results and what he thinks about on the way home. Just when I began to…
The Little Bride
Life on the prairie was romanticized by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Janette Oke. Yes, there were dangerous Indians and hard winters, but the focus was the love of family and the persevering pioneering spirit. Anna Solomon presents a quite different look at the Dakota frontier in her novel The Little Bride. The novel opens in…
So Near
The phrase sounds so cliche– every parent’s worst nightmare. But, in So Near, the new novel by Liza Gyllenhaal, it’s the most fitting way to describe the heart-wrenching plot the unfolds. Jenny and Cal Horigan have a delightful happiness with their lives. They live in their hometown, a tight community where Cal’s business thrives under…
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