I recently met with a dear friend who works at a bookstore and she asked me, as a writer, how I like my Kindle. She said their customers ask about e-readers all the time, and since she doesn’t have one, she’s not exactly sure how to answer. Here’s my answer – and I know it is bound to anger some people. If so, please let me know in the comments. 🙂 If you truly love reading, then there is no reason NOT to have an e-reader. I know there’s the argument about the experience and feel of a hardbound book, but that’s not all that reading is. Since I received...
Book Review: His Steadfast Love
Description: The Civil War – a defining time of great sacrifice, change, and betrayal which determined the fate of the Nation. It isn’t until it comes into her very home that Amanda Belle must face impossible choices of love, loss, and loyalty. It’s the spring of 1861 on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Although Amanda never thought she would marry because of her promise she made to her dying mother, her attraction to Captain Kent Littlefield is undeniable. When Texas secedes from the Union, her brother Daniel marches off to war to fight for the Confederate States and Kent remains with the Union troops. Her heart is torn between the...
Recycling Week – Best of Book Reviews
In honor of National Recycling Week – don’t even ask how I know that – I’m recycling a few of my old blogs. It was time to dust them off and make them work for their keep. Over the past two years, I’ve read countless books, but I only reviewed those I really enjoyed. Here is a list of my all-time favorites. (I can only think of a handful I would add to this list that I haven’t reviewed on my blog. One day, perhaps I’ll complete the list and review all of my favorites.) DISCLAIMER – these are in no particular order. There are many, many more books that...
Book Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See Description: A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives. My Review: What a breathtaking ride Lisa See takes you on, through 19th Century China like you’ve never heard. Isolation, expectations, degradation, foot-binding, child birth…The women of this society led secret lives through their nu shu “women’s writing.” From our western eyes, there are countless practices and beliefs that will jar you and rock your senses. There were times I felt a bit queasy in reading. The custom of foot-binding –...
Book Review: A Most Unsuitable Match
Description: An unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat journey up the Missouri River to Montana… She is a self-centered young woman from a privileged family who fears the outdoors and avoids anything rustic. He is a preacher living under a sense of duty and obligation to love the unlovable people in the world. She isn’t letting anything deter her from solving a family mystery that surfaced after her mother’s death. He is on a mission to reach the rejects of society in the remote wilderness regions of Montana. Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend Samuel Beck are opposites in every way… except in how they both keep wondering...