Reviews

Most of us have encountered Amish Friendship Bread at some time in our lives and know that it can be both a blessing an a curse.  (Who has time to babysit a bag of starter that will end up multiplying exponentially and cause friends and acquaintances alike to run when they see you coming with a plastic baggie of starter?)  At any rate,

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen, author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon and Garden Spells, takes us this time to Walls of Water, North Carolina, which is famous for its waterfall

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice is startlingly good. It is the first book in a series that features a retired Sherlock Holmes and his young, female apprentice. Mary Russell is about fifteen years old when she stumbles upon Holmes in the English countryside.

While New York Times bestselling author, Kat Martin, may be better known for her historical novels, she can pen romantic suspense with the best of them. When Sarah Allen’s abusive husband is killed, she thought she would finally be free to live in peace. However, her husband’s shady associates won’t leave her alone, certain she has a file of her husband’s.

Wilhelmina Sunshine Upton—Willie, to her friends—needs a break from her Alaskan archeology dig. Everyone finding out that you've been having an affair with a married professor will do that. Off she goes, pregnant, back home to Templeton, New York, and her once-hippie mother, Vivienne.

It's easy to forget now, nearly thirty years (!) after its theatrical release, that "Blade Runner" was pretty much a box-office flop. But it's true; this science fiction film is one of those movies that needed time to ripen.

A colleague urged me to read this 2007 graphic novel -- which I ended up doing in one sitting. Although classified as fiction for young adults, I found it irresistible, and it's been a few decades since anyone could consider me a young adult.

I usually like funny, fast-paced reads only if they’re poking fun at our society or have some deeper cultural undertones.

In one of my somewhat harebrained moments I adopted a beautiful mini Australian Shepherd from a dog rescue group in Stanley, KS. Within 24 hours, I realized that I had a severely neurotic dog on my hands. Although my mother-in-law insists he is psychotic, I don’t think he would try to kill us in our bed—he’s more worried we will try to kill him in his.

H.G. Wells is best known for his works of science fiction but he also wrote domestic comic novels, one being The History of Mr. Polly. Like his author, Alfred Polly is born into the suburban lower-middle-class of early 20th century England , a class known for its conservatism, restrictiveness, and respectability. As a boy, Alfred attends a National School where he receives a poor education but at age thirteen, he discovers reading and its joys. Adventure stories and comics are his favorites.