A voice–hot and potent–is apparently like hot whiskey, as described in Night Shift, book 1 of Nora Roberts’ Night Tales Series. Originally published in the early 1990’s, the first two books of the series have been repackaged in a two-for-one special entitled, Exposed (2016). Read the full review.
Halfway to Goal
The premise seems compelling: Two boys, same name, same background, same neighborhood. However, one becomes a Rhode Scholar and the other becomes an inmate serving a life sentence. What led to these boys’ diverging paths? A reporting and analysis would be presented. Only, the final product did not deliver on that premise. Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (2010) is a New York Times bestseller that is now common on many schools’ summer reading list. That’s how I came about purchasing it. […]
Let’s Talk about Me!
What do Pearl Cleage, Edwidge Danticat, James McBride, and Cheryl Strayed have in common–other than being published, successful writers? They are four of the twenty writers whose names stand out brightly against the backdrop of a colorful (though dated-and-insipid-for-2016) cover of Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature (2016), one of the best collections on writing around, edited by Meredith Moran. Read the full review.
Spindle–Not Cabot–Cove
Having read this title three months ago, I do remember enjoying it. Victor Bramwell, newly titled Earl of Rycliff, is a stubborn man but finds his match in Susanna, a woman way ahead of her time: She is an independent woman, and dare I say, a feminist (pun unintended). Together and apart, they are both fully fleshed characters. A Night to Surrender is a better than average romance with a cast of likable and intriguing supporting characters (particularly Corporal Thorne) whose stories I’m interested in knowing from […]