[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A pure delight from start to finish, this lovely children’s book cannot help but light up your day. Leo, our main protagonist, is a ten-year-old boy with puffy orange hair that has earned him the nickname of Lion (short for Dandelion). Leo, a solitary and troubled boy,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gritty and haunting look at the ravages of shame and abuse extending from childhood into the life-long decay of self and identity, this book is somewhat reminiscent of the also magnificent “Shuggie Bain”. A graceful and compassionate triumph - a brilliant book that will hurt to…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The second installment of the Callum Burke series comes back with a wallop, every bit as intense, gripping and unputdownable as its brilliant predecessor. Rich with raw and well-drafted characters, this book (and this series) reads very much like an authentically gritty behind-the-scenes look at police procedure,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fascinating, insightful and oh-so-wise look at love, through the eyes of a master psychoanalytic therapist, long versed in the compassionate practice of rooting out “dilemmas we face in relationships, which draw couples together and tear them apart.” Through the composite sketches provided of thirteen semi-fictional couples,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A captivating YA read, sparkling with starlight and magical realism, a tough and unmistakably tender heroine, an existential quest, and a whole townfull of lost and lovely souls. Welcome to Hadley, Arizona. Belutha, our main protagonist, is sixteen years old, a social misfit and an "invisible girl",…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wildly original, this all-verse rendering of an age-old story hits so many notes on so many levels that to attempt to define it would be to constrain it. Profoundly moving, lyrical and beautiful, tragic and infuriating - a feminist tribute to every woman (literally “every” woman) who…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A beaker of “bubbly, fizzy happiness”, this gentle, uplifting marvel is so sweet and so endearing you will yearn for a sequel. Luckily, for this reader, there is a prequel, and another book by this talented author just waiting to dive into. Lucinda Green, a 40 year-old…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A life for a life.One of which you dearly love. Could you make the selection? And act on it? A pulse-pounding ride, as much any parent’s worst nightmare as it is the most dastardly decision ever faced between the pages, this book will have you racing to…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 A reunion (long overdue) with Tracy Flick, heroine from the 1998 novel “Election”, and the character played so compellingly by Reese Witherspoon in the film adaptation. Perhaps less darkly comic and even more poignant and affecting in its satiricism, this latest installment re-introduces us to Tracy,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 This charming eight-book series is a lovely, meandering, heart-tugging look at life, at dreams, and the things you just know, in your heart, to be true and essential - to your self, your soul and your calling - and the path that just may unfold to reveal…