This is the story of Miss Frances Wray and her mother, two upper middle class British women whose fortunes took a turn when all the men in...

This book did for me what the previous book was supposed to do and didn’t. How is it that I can read a book about something painful that I...

I thought I would really connect with this book, that it would strike a deep chord with me, that it would bring raw emotions back to the sur...

I had so much fun reading this book. It was like a ghost story in Downton Abbey (if Robert Crawley had died and the house had fallen into ...

I enjoyed this one much more than I remember enjoying my previous (and only other) Bill Bryson read. Bryson harshed on a few cities pretty h...

This is a unique little novella. (Despite the fact that the cover claims it is a novel, it just doesn't have enough pages or enough word...

I LOVED the first half of this book. It tells the story of Alice Crewe, a 17-year-old student at a posh private high school in Manhattan. Al...

I must (grudgingly) admit I had fun reading this book. Stephen King is definitely not my typical choice; Bookworm Child was reading this las...

I didn’t like this book as much as I’ve liked others by Chevalier. At first, something about the writing bothered me. Either that wrinkle sm...

The Maze at Windermere is an ambitious novel that doesn't tell just one story, but five different ones: Sandy Alison, former pro tenn...

This is one of those books I enjoyed so much that I read it too quickly and now I’m sad it’s over already. It’s a book of ten short stor...

The Seas is a nice short absorbing book, weird in an intriguing way.  In a coastal town far to the north, a 19-yr-old girl lives w...