"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 …
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"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 …
"The Sojourn"
my take: This slim book was a great surprise. I saw it on my cousin Betsy’s TO READ pile and …
"The Year of Biblical Womanhood"
my take: When I surveyed the Festival of Faith and Writing authors and books to read in preparation, I saw …
"What Happened to Sophie Wilder?"
my take: A classic boy loves the wrong girl for waaaaaay too long story. And much more. Both main characters …
"Frances and Bernard"
my take: I can’t contain myself: this book is fabulous. Could end the review right here. Seriously. First of all, …
"The Burgess Boys"
my take: I love everything Elizabeth Strout has written. I pre-ordered this on Amazon and just bided my time. Worth …
"Flunking Sainthood"
my take: What’s not to love about a self-depricating woman? Jana Riess says in the preface, “I am going to …
"Help Thanks Wow"
my take: Anne Lamott is my soul-sister twin born from another mother. In her latest work she gives the shortcut …
"Marcelo in the Real World"
my take: First off, ignore the cover. Seriously. This book is for high school and above and the cover doesn’t …
"the illumination"
my take: file this one under the “different” category… i would classify as magical realism. there are two main threads …
"half a yellow sun"
my take: civil war, Nigeria. hmmm. that could be super depressing. as much as this is a story about the …
"purple hibiscus"
my take: this was on my pile of books to read before the Festival of Faith & Writing. as such, …
"a grown up kind of pretty"
my take: thank you, joshilyn. you’ve done it again! it was worth the wait. i work with women in addiction …
The Devil’s Highway
my take: I read this in preparation for the Festival of Faith and Writing. It’s a pretty serious book – …
"the blind contessa’s new machine"
my take: oooh, this is a lovely little book. little in your hand, but big in your experience. this historical …
"amy inspired"
my take: my mother handed me this and said she’d had low expectations and had been pleasantly surprised that she …
