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Excerpt from Beautiful Boy

June 4, 2019 / 3 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

Last week I read Beautiful Boy by David Sheff. This is a tough book, a memoire of his son’s addiction too meth. If you have a family member with an addiction, you’ll find a friend in Sheff. He puts it all out there, the guilt, the worry and anxiety, imagining what might have happened to him every time he disappeared. He goes through the stages of not knowing, telling himself it wasn’t so bad, and then Nic’s rapid downward spiral and cycles of recovery and relapse.

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Excerpt from A Stranger in the House

May 28, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I am just finishing up with A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena. It’s a psychological thriller with three “unreliable” main characters. You know that someone is lying (or everyone is lying) but figuring out what has actually happened is the trick. There are a lot of twists and turns. I’m right at the ending, and I’m not surprised, but it wasn’t what I expected!

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Excerpt from The Fallen

May 21, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

I am reading one of David Baldacci’s Amos Decker Series. I’ve posted about this series before, I think this is the third of them that I have read (though obviously, I am not reading them in order, since this is book #4 in the series.)

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Apple-achian Treasure and a stack of new releases

May 17, 2019 / 9 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Ready to discover a new treasure this week? Erin is hunting for gold, and you can too.
Apple-achian Treasure, Book #8 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series is now live! Pick up Erin’s and Vic’s new adventure and some other new releases.

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Excerpt from The President is Missing

May 14, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

I have put EDS, book #2 of Medical Kidnap Files on sale for $0.99 for Ehlers Danlos Awareness month. If you didn’t get a copy or see my article about EDS, have a look. I was surprised to find The President is Missing on my virtual library shelf and not to have to put a

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Excerpt from The Light Between Oceans

April 16, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

I am just finishing The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman. It has been a very interesting books with some unexpected twists and turns. There is some beautiful language and some very profound quotes. Fate miraculously presents a returning soldier with PTSD and his wife, who has suffered from three miscarriages with an apparently orphaned baby. But… life doesn’t actually work that way…

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A Catastrophic Theft and other March freebies

March 29, 2019 / 9 minutes of reading / 2 Comments

Are you looking for some books to add to your TBR pile? A Catastrophic Theft, book #3 in the Reg Rawlins, Psychic Detective series is free this weekend, Mar 29-31 on Kindle. Keep scrolling down for more! About A Catastrophic Theft Reg has been able to set up a respectable, if somewhat unconventional business providing

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Excerpt from First Family

March 19, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / 3 Comments

I don’t think I’ve ever been disappointed with a David Baldacci book. My current read, First Family, is part of the King & Maxwell series. Sean King and Michael Maxwell are complex characters, satisfying to read, and this book revolves around the mysterious kidnapping of the First Lady’s niece.

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Books for International Women’s Day 2019

March 7, 2019 / 13 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year again! Last year I was doing a book reading with a couple of author friends for International Women’s Day, and it was really a lot of fun. Keep reading to discover some other books by or about fascinating women to add to your TBR pile.

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Fiction about Sexual Abuse of Boys/Men

February 21, 2019 / 13 minutes of reading / 7 Comments

I have had discussions in a couple of writers’ communities lately about the topic of the sexual abuse of men and boys, some of the myths that surround it, and giving men/boys “permission” to speak about sexual abuse on an equal footing with women/girls. We’ve discussed male authors writing about sexual abuse and whether women want to hear from them.

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