A HERO WITH A BEARD! My first lumbersexual after 3 years and 300 books. I may need a moment. Penny Reid’s great Knitting in the City series continues with Beauty and the Mustache, a book that also happens to introduce a family of brothers (Cletus, Beauford, Jethro, Billy, Duane, and Roscoe) set for their own stories. They all have beards, too! Huzzah! Ashley Winston is a nurse living in Chicago and she has just come home to rural Tennessee to learn why her mother is not […]
The T-Rex and the Mouse
Disclaimer! I was granted an ARC from NetGalley in return for a fair and objective review. The book will be on general release 10/03/15. Charlotte Baird is anxious and painfully shy due to some unresolved trauma involving her first, very unfortunately chosen boyfriend. When the company she works for hires a new CEO, known for his ruthless efficiency, to come clean up the mess left by corruption and mismanagement, she and pretty much everyone else is terrified they might lose their jobs. Yet Gabriel Bishop, […]
Twisty, Tragicomic Stories That Go Down Easy
A quick and easy read full of some great short stories. I really enjoyed Jacob M. Appel’s writing style. He’s witty, concise, and polished. It’s obvious he’s been writing short stories for a while by the simple and effective ways he delivers the narratives. The first two stories (Hue and Cry and La Tristesse Des Hérissons) had glimmers of greatness, but were ultimately a little disappointing. The rest of the collection really picked up steam though. I connected with the Rabbi protagonist in Strings plagued […]
The Measure of a Man
Edna Ferber was once the most famous female novelist in the United States. A member of the famed Algonquin Table, Ferber wrote several novels that were turned into classic movies, including Showboat, Giant, and Cimarron. Ferber’s So Big won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for literature. I’m not sure why her novels get so little attention these days. This is the first that I have read, and I am probably going to try a few more. I found So Big to be a timely and relevant […]