Save Me The Plums by Ruth Reichl
Happy Holidays! I hope you all have had a year filled with great books. As we inch closer to a New Year, I want to share one more book that you will want to add to your reading list. Save Me The Plums by Ruth Reichl.
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A Fine Romance by Susan Branch
Happy Thanksgiving! If you have time to curl up with a book over the Thanksgiving holidays, A Fine Romance by Susan Branch tops my list of one of the best books I’ve read in 2016. I have let y’all know how much I love Susan Branch’s books, calendars, notecards, and art work. This book doesn’t …
The Fairy Tale Girl by Susan Branch
Do you all know who Susan Branch is? I hope you do and I hope you love her artwork and books as much I do. I just finished The Fairy Tale Girl by Susan Branch and I will tell you the review is completely biased and here’s why….
Safari; A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer
Safari; A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer by Geoffrey Kent is a well written book by the brilliant businessman who with his parents created and built the luxury travel tour company Abercrombie and Kent. I don’t typically review travel books on the blog, but this one I really want to share with you. …
A Moment in Connemara; An Irish Love Story by Annie Quinn
A Moment in Connemara is a love story set between the United States and Ireland. The book, written by Annie Quinn is the love story of the author and her second husband Noel Quinn. The book was inspired by her journal writings and her decision to write the story for Noel’s family so they …
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis De Voto by Joan Reardon
Have you had a book that you keep intending to read, maybe even started it, stopped, re-started and then forgot what was happening, so you go back a chapter? As Always, Julia is one of those books for me. This book took me a long time to read and not because I didn’t thoroughly enjoy …
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Born Standing Up: A Comics Life by Steve Martin
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a beautiful holiday season and had some quiet time to read. I had hoped to get a couple of books read and finished, it just didn’t happen. I was lucky to have had time to read our January book club selection and what a fun read it …
Crazy for the Storm ~ By Norman Ollestad
Reviewing and writing about biographies or memoirs is a bit hard for me. They are such personal stories and I feel like I am being critical of the author and their story. Crazy for the Storm unfolds in the 1970’s. The author tells his own personal story of a tragic plane crash in the mountains of Southern California. …
