[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] A perfect little picture book - bursting with hope, delight and the soul-affirming promise of a nascent new day. As a little girl and her grandmother sow a garden we see the wonder each little seed brings, following the cycle of life laid out for us, from…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] It’s shocking to realize how little I knew about women’s fight to earn the vote, and the terrible toll it took on those first few (and incredibly brave) Suffragettes. The story told in this spell-binding release by Galia Gichon is historically accurate, which makes the emotional whallup…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the @rrbooktours #rrbooktours blogtour for the #YA release of #burningbright - Book two in the rise and fall of Dani Truehart Series, by @author.michelekwas When we last met Dani Truehart, in the pages of “Rising Star”, Dani was 15 years old and a…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 1/2 What a charming book! Targeted for children aged seven and up; bursting with reproductions of classic art, captured with color and energy breathing life onto every page - this visually spectacular and lovely little book teaches children about the artist Cézanne, helping set the stage for…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Crazy unputdownably good, it’s hard to believe this is a debut novel. Virginia Kennedy, our darkly messed-up, severely hurting, main protagonist, is twenty-six years old, living in a small New England town. Biting sarcasm, extreme social avoidance, and an alcohol-induced haze, Virginia’s prime tools for coping, do…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 1/2 From her earliest days on “ One Day at a Time”, I’ve always thought of Valerie Bertinelli as a living, breathing, approachable, everyday kind of person, albeit one who is beautiful, talented, and a very successful TV star. She always just came across as so kind,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 1/2 “I don’t know what to do with the thoughts flying around my head so I stand up and spring my arms high. Perhaps, I can touch the sky. I have a little laugh because it’s a fun idea and the words high and sky make an…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] I remember reading Ray Bradbury as a kid and being totally captivated. That rush of immediate childish wonder - of starry nights and worlds out there to be discovered - and lurking in the sidelines, the terror of the unknown, the darkly magical, and just what could…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Reviewing this book of poetry is like reviewing raw emotion - as it’s impossible (and inherently wrong) to review another’s pain, or joy, or anger, or lived experience - all that can be done is to consider the reach, or “trueness” of the words expressed in their…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Elise Morgan is ninety years old, has lived the vast majority of her life in Cornwall, and as her eminently capable daughter points out, “has a good, balanced view of things”, including, (alone among her contemporaries), a lack of panic at the large-scaled housing development threatening the…