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Book Review: Heart On A String

by Kris Radish
Bantam Books, 2010
My Rating: B-
My Synopsis: Five women, complete strangers meet in an airport restroom when one of them accidentally drops her cell phone in the toilet. They instantly band together to keep everyone out of the restroom until they are able to recover the phone.
About the time they are accomplishing that feat, [...]

Graphic Novel: Ethel & Ernest

by Raymond Briggs
Alfred A Knopf, 1998
Ethel and Ernest is a lovely tribute to the author’s parents. Told in graphic novel form, the story stretches from the time they met until their deaths. The story takes place in London and covers the enormous changes that happened in the world from the 1930’s to the early 1970’s.
Ethel [...]

The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society

by Christine Coleman
Transita, 2005
My Rating: A+
I want you to meet my new friend, Agnes. When I first met Agnes, I felt sorry for her. She’s a nice enough person, but she was stuck in a bad situation. Had I been her, I would have been screaming and scratching. It didn’t take long until Agnes became [...]

Body Parts: A Collection Of Poems About Aging

From the time we are born, our bodies change. But as we age, the dramatic changes seem to take us by surprise. Our eyesight may dim, our hearing fade, our joints may ache, and our hair – oh, my gosh, where did it go?
I’ve noticed that as we experience these changes, people react differently to [...]

Agatha Christie: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

I’ve been reading Agatha Christie’s books in publication order. This is the 17th book and one of the few that does not feature one of her famous detectives. There is no Hercule Poirot, no Miss Marple, nor Tommy and Tuppence.
In Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? Ms. Christie introduced Bobby Jones and Lady Frances or Frankie. [...]

Reading Together: Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour

My husband, Jay, and I read this book together – he with his eyes and I with my ears. Jay is a Louis L’Amour fan. He owns all 105 of the books and has read all of them at least three or four times. He’s even met the author twice and has done lots of [...]

Book Review: The Love Ceiling

by Jean Davies Okimoto
Endicott and Hugh Books, 2009
My Rating: A
Have you ever read a book that felt like it came from your own life?  The Love Ceiling felt like that for me. Well, maybe not all the exact details, but in the general concepts.
Imagine a main character who -

is in her mid-sixties,
has grown children [...]