Reading Recommendations from Michelle Bengtson
I have always loved books. Growing up we didn’t have much money, but books from the library took me to faraway places. As a child, my favorite picture book was Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. He had such a way with words, and often made me laugh at [...]
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore (book review)
Get your copy here! Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a [...]
The Night Garden by Lisa Van Allen (book review)
Get your copy here! Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinary, yet at its center lies something remarkable: a wild maze of colorful gardens that reaches beyond the imagination. Local legend says that a visitor can gain answers to life’s [...]
Tin Camp Road by Ellen Airgood (book review)
Get your copy here! Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye have always been each other’s everything. The pair live on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children, and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living [...]
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead (book review)
Get your copy here! Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to [...]