How can anyone read a book while they walk? I've seen this woman in the Mount Avon Cemetery before, book held in one hand, eyes fixed on the page, as she winds her way through. She walks briskly, too, … Continue reading >>
Helen Peppe's memoir, Pigs Can't Swim, is a pinnacle of family dysfunction: funny, heart wrenching, stupefying and sometimes infuriating. Her parents' insistence on nonsensical rules, old wive's tales … Continue reading >>
A bride is murdered an hour before she walks down the aisle, and everyone is a suspect in COLD FEET, by Karen Pullen. It may sound like a typical mystery, but it's not. The narrator is a female … Continue reading >>
On Hurricane Island by writer Ellen Meeropol is a psychological/political thriller that follows five characters involved in a nightmarish crisis at a secret terrorist interrogation center on a small … Continue reading >>
Grandma wrote bestsellers
Have you ever felt you were too old to start that novel you've always wanted to write?
Belva Plain was 63 years old when her first novel, a romantic epic titled … Continue reading >>
Marie Corelli's 1886 novel Thelma, a Norwegian Princess resulted in a flood of baby girls named Thelma, a name she apparently created. One of those babies was my own mother, born in 1921. My … Continue reading >>