The Widow’s Season by Laura Brodie has a great first line, “Sarah McConnell’s husband had been dead three months when she saw him in the grocery store. He was standing at the end of the seasonal aisle, contemplating a display of plastic pumpkins, when, for one brief moment, he lifted his head and looked into [...]
The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott’s opening chapter is a mere four lines:
I liked him first, but it doesn’t matter.
I still like him.
That doesn’t matter either.
Or at least, it’s not supposed to.
Those four lines set up the entire book perfectly. Ah . . . to be the third wheel. It’s bad enough to be [...]
Witness by Karen Hesse is told from the viewpoints of eleven different townspeople in a small town of Vermont in 1924. A town in which the Klu Klux Klan has moved in and ultimately changes everything. I adore free-verse novels and Witness is as powerful as they come. Based on true characters, there are photographs [...]
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris is a very quiet character study novel and a fine one at that. Living a comfortable lifestyle with his devoted wife Jane and their daughter Becka, attorney Tim Farnsworth relapses into a very odd condition in which he can’t stop walking. Having battled this condition twice previously, Tim had always [...]
Year of No Rain by Alice Mead is a story of children and civil war. So right away you know it’s a sad book. But yet it’s one of hope, determination and optimism.
Eleven-year-old Stephen Majok lives in a small Sudanese village. When he is not playing with his friends he tends his family’s two cows. [...]
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