Book Recommendations with Janet McHenry
What was your favorite picture book as a kid? My favorite children’s book wasn’t really a picture book. It was Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses—a hardback book that was fully illustrated. It’s interesting that a poetry book was my favorite as a child because later as a [...]
Beguiled: A Paranormal Women’s Fiction Novel by Darynda Jones (book review)
Get your copy here! Newly indoctrinated witch, Defiance Dayne, discovers there’s more to life after forty than she’d ever imagined possible. Especially if one is a charmling, one of only three in the world, with enough magics to make her a target for every power-hungry warlock out there. When one [...]
Book Recommendations with Donna Schlachter
What was your favorite picture book as a kid? A Child’s Garden of Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading? The Cherry Ames, Nurse series What was your favorite book in high school? Anything with horses. What was [...]
Book Reviews: Where are they?
My goal for 2023 was to read fewer books than I have in the past few years. The reason? I need to write more. To help manage my time, I set a new standard for reading books: if it doesn't grab my attention in the first 1-2 chapters, I walk [...]
Book Recommendations with Carol Grace Stratton
What was your favorite picture book as a kid? Blueberries for Sal. My grandmother loved the book and I have fond memories of her reading it to me. What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading? I loved Charlotte’s Web. As a city girl [...]