Book Review, The Enchanted April
Published in 1922, this novel continues to delight readers to this day. I took to the book in the early pages when nervous submissive Mrs. Wilkins latches onto the idea of a holiday in Italy. The villa was advertised in the Times to those who like Wisteria and...Book Review, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Delia Owens’ debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing is one of my favorite reads of 2018. It is a romance, a family saga, a coming of age story, and a murder mystery rolled into one, often poetic, book. Owens writes from a remarkable understanding of...Chewy Has Been Sold
Well, I have a gentleman’s agreement on the sale of Chewy and I trust the buyer to tell me if he changes his mind. My husband and I may have named the truck Chewy because the old Studebaker sounded like Chewbacca when he headed down the road. I...Book Review, Prairie Fires
Prairie Fires Written by Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires is a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, her parents, grandparents and daughter couched in a history and discourse of the American frontier. The biography finds purchase in the final third of the...Just One Beggar: Books and Lingerie, A memory of Lonny
Source: Just One Beggar: Books and Lingerie, A memory of LonnyAbout Me
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