Summer in the South
Bought this book based on the cover and title. I’m such a cliche. Actually the inside cover copy read like it’d be interesting too. And it was . . .sort of. Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t understand the main character or her motivations. I kept going back to re-read pages because I was […]
Summer Rental
This day doesn’t get much better. I’m at the beach, with friends, and it’s a glorious 90 odd degrees with a perfect white beach and incredible surf. I pull my beach chair up to the line where the tide washes in, sink my feet into the wet sand, kick back in the rusty old chair […]
Georgia on Her Mind
Another benefit of e-readers: finding books that my bookstore wouldn’t carry. I just read Rachel Hauck’s Georgia On Her Mind via my Kindle this weekend and loved getting a dose of fun, well-written story with a great message. If your bookstore is like mine, they’re cutting back. Only going with the big title books and […]
Buckingham Palace Gardens
Judging by the vast list of titles on the flyleaf of Buckingham Palace Gardens, I’m a little late discovering the wonderful stories that Anne Perry creates and sets in 1920s London. I’d chatted with a friend about Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobb series (Love it!) and she turned me on to reading Anne Perry’s detective series […]
An assortment of books, mostly read
In between the catch-all that has been my schedule lately (I don’t know how, but my life is being dictated by my daughter’s high school) I’ve been reading various books. I can’t say I finished them all, but I honestly know I’ll probably never get back to them either. BUT, having said that I thought […]
The Distant Hours
Wandering through my favorite bookstore, Barrons, the other day I turned to see a new book propped on a low shelf and for reasons I can’t define, (short of my addiction to fiction) bought it. The Distant Hours, by Kate Morton, proved to be one of those books that I couldn’t put down once I […]
Already Home
I read Susan Mallery’s novel, Already Home, over the course of a few weekends and found it delightful, particularly as it got rolling toward the middle. Because I think this was more women’s fiction than true roman fiction the female characters were plentiful and well-developed, even some of the secondary characters had a rich backstory. […]
6 must-read magazines
For those of you’ve who asked–not that I get stopped in the grocery store to answer this pressing question, but–here are the 6 magazines that I read (almost cover-to-cover) as soon as they hit my mailbox. Gardens and Guns: (I know crazy, right.) This may be the most perfect magazine for a displaced Georgian since […]
Summer at Tiffany’s
Finished reading a sweet, darling memoir written by an 82-year old women regarding the summer she and her best friend and fellow Kappa sister, jumped the train in Iowa and headed to Manhattan for a summer of adventure. Through some amazing good fortune these girls landed jobs at Tiffany’s (the first girls ever hired as […]
The September Society
I read a review of Charles Finch’s pre-World War 1, British mystery saga with interest in the Dallas Morning News–I love that era, love all things English, and as long as the deaths aren’t too graphic, love a good mystery novel. The September Society is number two or three in collection that features a wry, […]
