Rising Strong (Book Review with Quotes)
Our take-aways from Rising Strong are to be more aware of and choose more wisely the stories we tell ourselves and others, as well as the boundaries we set…
Book Reviews
Personal Librarian (Book Review)
This is historical fiction of the enormously talented, gutsy woman who served as J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, curator, and art dealer.
The Untethered Soul (Book Review with Quotes)
If you need to gain more objectivity over your thoughts and feelings to experience more freedom, this would be a great read for you.
Lions of Fifth Avenue (Book Review)
It was nice to read historical fiction that was not about war or pivoting around a true person.
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Book Review)
I recommend this novel as one of the best I’ve read in quite a while. I predict it will be the book to get and give at Christmas this year.
Clear Seeing Place (Book Review with Quotes)
This is a marvelous memoir by a successful and nice artist. Read here lots of quotes from it that I found illuminating.
Discover the Power Within You (Book Review with Quotes)
I don’t agree with everything in this book, but it has a more enlightened view of God than many you could read.
The Beach House (Book Review)
This was a breezy summer read, even though there were serious themes here of cancer, abuse, teen pregnancy, and adultery.
The Country of the Pointed Firs (Book Review)
This is a straight-forward novel, looking at simple lives and exploring universal themes, in a long ago beautiful place.
Name of the Wind (Book Review)
This is mostly an epic yarn, spun nice and slow, letting it build and twist and turn.
The Lost Manuscript (Book Review)
This is a charming story that follows the 33-year journey of a lost manuscript.
Anxious People (Book Review)
This book examines the foibles of the human condition and handily deals with the impact we all have on each another.
Sunflower Sisters (Book Review)
I enjoyed this sweeping Civil War-era novel that follows the story of three female characters, whose paths become intertwined in the story
Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom (Book Review)
This beautifully written, Pulitzer prize winning, detailed, and very long biography is a tour de force.
People We Meet on Vacation (Book Review)
This pitch perfect, breezy novel is full of romantic tension, and often laugh out loud funny.