review

"Night at the Fiestas"

my take: I don’t always love/like short stories. They’re so … brief? Just as I get emotionally attached to characters …

"Every Exquisite Thing"

my take: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”* Nanette and Alex meet through their encounter with …

"My Name is Lucy Barton"

my take: I borrowed this from the virtual library to read on my Kindle … not a super big fan …

Rising Strong

my take: Daring Greatly was about being in the arena – engaging in life, going for it, trying and possibly …

The Cleaner of Chartres

my take: This is a quiet novel that runs deep. Agnes, the cleaner, appears to be a blank slate upon …

The Fishermen

my take: The upbeat cover of this book is deceptive … it is a colorful but oh-so-woe-full tale behind this …

"White Teeth"

my take: Every so often while reading I had to look back to the publishing date to double check that …

The Book of Jonah

my take:  In this is a modern re-telling of the Biblical book, Tarshish and Ninevah are replaced with New York …

Big Magic

my take: This is a celebration of CREATIVITY based on the idea that we humans are made to make – …