With the Holiday Travel Season upon us, my thoughts wonder to what to pack for the train, plane or automobile trip ahead. But then, when packing for a trip I am always torn about what reading material to bring. In the past, I traveled Europe with one suitcase for clothes and one full of books. Read the review...

The Eleventh Hour is a cool book by author and illustrator Graeme Base. I like it because you do a lot of detective work to solve a mystery. It is fun and exciting because there are tiny hidden mice and clues hidden in the beautiful illustrations. Read the review...

Patricia Volonakis Davis makes no bones about the precarious state of her marriage in a memoir that shares the name of her e-zine and radio podcast. “Harlot’s Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss and Greece” details how Davis met a mercurial Greek man and spent more than a dozen years trying to make their union work. Read the review...

What a wonderful love story this is. It begins with love at first sight and takes the reader on a tumultuous trip tas the main characters find each other again. The characters are fascinating, good and bad, altruistic and selfish, they all seem interesting- people you would like to know! Read the review...

In most novels a surprise ending seems like a speedy exit- or a tricky re-interpretation of the truth as the reader has come to know it. Does the reader re-read? Or accept the clever twist that allows the ending? In this novel the stories that make up the eight primary books of the novel are as independent as short stories. Read the review...

I felt an instant connection with the title of Giulia Melucci’s recent book I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti . Not only do I often seek comfort in the form of calories, I’m pretty sure that spaghetti is proof of a benevolent Higher Power somewhere in the universe. Read the review...

Jean Rhys’ biography, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys, written by the British biographer Lillian Pizzichini, torments the reader with its rawness. Read the review...

Denise Giardina brings to life the story of Emily Bronte in her novel, Emily’s Ghost. Emily’s reality is her family, her home, and the ghosts she hears in the graveyard and on the moors. Read the review...