Reviews
Exit by Belinda Bauer
January 12, 2021
Book review of Exit by Belinda Bauer My first completed book for Book Challenge by Erin 14! Exit is about a man who belongs to a dedicated group of people called Exiteers. (No, I’d never heard that term before.) Felix aka John lives alone, is seventy-two, and watches people die. An Exiteer is a volunteer […]
What You Wish For by Katherine Center
July 14, 2020
Book review: What You Wish For by Katherine Center What You Wish For features feisty Sam Casey, librarian of a hand-crafted, progressive school and all-around awesome human. She lives on an idyllic island in a carriage house on the grounds of a historic mansion within walking distance of the school. Don’t you love books about […]
Ghosts of Harvard
April 29, 2020
Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella When Cady hears disembodied voices, she fears she is suffering from the same paranoid schizophrenia that drove her brother, a Harvard student, to take his life. Who can blame her? Fear is a character in this novel. Fear of the unknown, fear of things that go bump in the […]
Please See Us, a book review
January 9, 2020
Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen is a women-in-peril murder mystery written in a haunting, lyrical style. The book opens with a prologue in the voices of the dead silently calling Please See Us. But no one does. The dead are forgotten women, murdered by a sadist and abandoned in a Jersey City marsh between […]
Salem’s Lot
October 22, 2019
‘Tis the season for ghosties and goblins and things that go bump in the night. Or, as in the case of Salem’s Lot by Stephen King, things that go bite in the night. If you’ve spent any time reading this blog, you know my heart belongs to the ghost set. However, I always participate in […]
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
March 6, 2019
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend was, for me, a moving experience. On the surface, it’s a simple story–Budo, Max’s imaginary friend, details their life together. Budo advises Max on the ways of the elementary school world. Max is a smart child who resides somewhere on the autism spectrum and often cannot express himself or understand […]
Hero Dogs
January 20, 2019
As some of you know, I have been working on a novel with a service dog for, like, forever. So when the publisher of Hero Dogs contacted me with an advanced reading copy of Hero Dogs, I was excited. After participating in the Oklahoma City bombing rescue effort, Wilma Melville was so moved that she […]
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
December 11, 2018
It was with pleasure that I read this insightful review of Sing, Unburied, Sing from Trish Reviews by the Book. Trish discusses Ward’s use of ghost to give a voice to the voiceless slaves of the South whose lives were brutally stolen from them. Trish also discusses the metaphor of journey in the novel. I […]
Review: Black Creek Crossing
October 26, 2018
Black Creek Crossing by John Saul Based on the blurb, I was expecting Black Creek Crossing to be ghostlit, but it turned out to be more of a witch novel. Or more precisely, a ghost-witch book. A witch from the days of Colonial times makes her presence known, but she is also a ghost because, well, […]
