After a seventeen-year wait, Kathryn Stockett returns with her second novel, THE CALAMITY CLUB. Her debut, THE HELP, was published in 2009, and after hearing several glowing endorsements of her new novel, I could not wait to get my hands on it. Like her previous novel, Stockett’s new offering is set in Mississippi, though this […]
In the opening of this newest Katherine Center offering, Josephine Burton is about to walk down the aisle to marry her fiancé, Pearce, when her best friend, Cooper Watts, makes a surprise appearance after being absent from her life for four years. Cooper had RSVP’d no, but after he unexpectedly shows up at the wedding […]
In the United States, we usually name our babies before they even leave the hospital, but in England, new parents are given a forty-two days’ grace period to live with their child before they register their birth with their local field office. In Florence Knapp’s THE NAMES, what would usually be a normal ritual for […]
New Year’s Day in the Australian outback is not turning out how twenty-nine year old Lexi Villers had envisioned. One minute she is camping with her two best friends – Finn and Jack – and she is about to make what feels like a stronger connection with Jack, when a helicopter interrupts. Out steps her […]
As with previous years, I like to kick off the new year by reflecting on what I read during the previous year. And 2025 was a good one, reading-wise for me. I love writing each title down and keeping track of the total; with this year’s grand total being 54. That is a big number […]
Cecily Foster loves podcasting and would love to have her own show, but her boss keeps giving her other assignments. Until one day, he calls her into his office and tells her that it is finally her turn, that she is getting a shot at hosting her own show. After his pitch, there are a […]
I have been familiar with Jen Hatmaker for a long time, mostly through her work as an influencer on social media. First, when she was an outspoken and funny Christian leader, then later, as she publicly spoke out in opposition to her church’s view and in support of LGBTQ+individuals, and finally as a woman whose […]
New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz takes a crack at writing a modern-day classic crime novel. In this series he casts himself as Dr. Watson to disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne’s Sherlock Holmes. It is an intriguing premise that allows the author of the book to be one of the main characters. At first […]
In an effort to avoid being laid off from the video production company she works for, Katie Vaughn agrees to a month-long visit to Key West, Florida to shoot a recruiting video for the Coast Guard. The video will feature a rescue swimmer, Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson. Katie has previously heard of Hutch because he took […]
Journalist Alice Scott longs to move from writing features and profiles on minor celebrities to writing a complete biography on someone uber famous. Someone like Margaret Ives, a former media darling who comes from one of the most famous families of the twentieth century. Despite Margaret being in hiding for at least three decades, without […]
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