A Rebel’s Story Ever wonder what it’s like to be locked up in a recovery center? Ever sent your teenager to one and been concerned about what might be happening […]
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The Queen of the Platform
Historical fiction is one of my passions, whether it’s presented as a period drama on the big or small screen, the stage, or in book form. That’s why I looked […]
Read MoreBeautiful & Terrible Things
How do you decide what books to read? By favorite genre? The elevator pitch? the cover? I chose to read and review Beautiful & Terrible Things because it was outside […]
Read MoreThe Causative Factor
The Causative Factor is wonderfully original in so many ways—the characters, their careers (a plumber and an artist who makes complicated boxes), the plot twists, the settings (western New York […]
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To me, one of the joys of reading is immersing myself in cultures or situations I know little about. This was the main reason I chose to read Krishma Tuli […]
Read MoreBeware the Tall Grass
Ellen Birkett Morris’s novel Beware the Tall Grass (Columbus State University Press, March 2024) weaves what appear at first blush to be two disconnected stories together in ways that are […]
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