Books I Have Reviewed Lately

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Year-Round Slow Cooker: 100 Favorite Recipes for Every Season

by Dina Cheney

An elegant book delivering recipes season by season for slow cookers. Ms. Cheney provides new ideas for using this kitchen staple and the recipes are fresh and upbeat, creating delicious sounding meals by the score. If you have a slow ...

Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening

by Fran Sorin

Creativity is inside us all, and this book gives you a window on how to open up what is inside you. Ms. Sorin presents a well laid-out plan to tap what you really want in a garden, and how to bring forth all that creativity. If you don...

Starting to Frame: A Memoir

by Roger Gordon

I received an ARC of this book. Growing up with parents suffering from mental health issues and how these affected his family life, Roger Gordon is honest in his writing. Our society is made much more aware of this through reading memo...

The Pink House at Appleton

by Jonathan Braham

This stunning book puts you into a sugar estate in 1950s Jamaica. Careful, sensitive writing paints the lush surroundings perfectly, as well as presenting a portrait of a family dealing with human failibility and weakness. Highly recom...

In Wilderness: A Novel

by Diane Thomas

I received an ARC of this book for an honest review. An extremely well-written novel about two very damaged people surviving however they can. Disturbing, sometimes frightening, but eminently readable. A portrait of a woman becoming s...

Green on Blue

Green on Blue: A Novel by Elliot Ackerman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Mr. Ackerman's words bring this brutal conflict into perspective like no other account I have read. The words of young Aziz, say it all:

“The militants fought to protect us from the Americans,” says Aziz, the young Afghan narrator of Green on Blue, “and the Americans fought to protect us from the militants, and being so protected, life was very dangerous.”



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Wolf Winter

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I was lucky enough to redeive an ARC of this book.

Winter comes to 17th century Lappland, events occur without explanation. Magical!

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Jesse

Jesse by Glen Alan Burke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book.

Refreshing, uplifting, a joy to read!

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The Bird Box

The Bird Box by K.J. Steele
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book and was delighted!
The flowing words of Ms. Steele create characters so real that you will want them to overcome so many obstacles to freedom. Broken, forgotten lives take on new meaning in this book...highly recommend it!

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The Dress Shop of Dreams

The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of this book.

The author's use of colors makes this book come to life! It is easy to imagine all the dresses in the shop, just waiting for the right person to come in. Highly enjoyable book with enough of a story to make it interesting.

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Wow, never thought I'd be blogging about books, but here goes!