Sep 5, 2017 | reading & recs
JUNE The Dry, by Jane Harper Police investigator Aaron Falk returns home for the funeral of a friend and old wounds resurface in this “page-turner of a mystery set in parched Australia.” I loved everything about the set-up, plus this baby got 4.07 stars on...
Aug 31, 2017 | reading & recs
I launched this What I’ve Been Reading Lately monthly book series on The Daily Grace in January and made it all the way to February. (That’s so me.) Which means the list is now very long. Still we should catch up, right? Here goes Part 1. MARCH...
Jun 9, 2017 | reading & recs
I guess the proper place to begin is with the admission she was not even on my radar. Oh, I’d heard of the book. I’d been drawn to it for years, the title alone tugging my heart until it pulled itself all the way to the top of my To Be Read list. But I...
Mar 9, 2017 | reading & recs
February, here goes. Be Frank With Me, by Julia Claiborne Johnson Harper Collins says of this book: A sparkling talent makes her fiction debut with this infectious novel that combines the charming pluck of Eloise, the poignant psychological quirks...
Mar 1, 2017 | reading & recs
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Glennon Doyle Melton’s Love Warrior. It’s a book about which I have a lot of conflicting emotions, and I will hold those for another time. But just last night, as I was rendering...
Feb 8, 2017 | reading & recs
AROUND THE HOLIDAYS, Tim and I made a commitment to each other to spend more time reading (AKA less time watching television). Then we instituted a Reading Happy Hour, and three or four times a week, we (AKA he) builds a fire, pours a glass of wine...
