Self Care by Leigh Stein (book review)
The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to stay BFFs. Have you ever scrolled through Instagram and seen countless influencers who seem like experts at caring for themselves—from their yoga crop tops to their well-lit clean [...]
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (book review)
Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the [...]
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire (book review)
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a [...]
Writers are Readers: Lisa Baker
What was the first adult novel that you read? What did you like about it? When I was in junior high, I devoured Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. As a Christian I cannot recommend the philosophy she espoused (pure humanism), but she took a dark probability and infused it with [...]
Buck’s Pantry by Khristin Wierman (book review)
In a small Texas town, three women--Gillian, a former prom queen and furious juggler of her three children's manic schedules; Lianna, a foul-mouthed East Coast banking super star; and Aimee, a woman capable of far more than her current life will allow--find their lives converging. Gillian, reeling from the revelations [...]