Spotlight

The Duck Who Played the Kazoo is the newest children’s picture book by Amy E. Sklansky, illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke. Amy’s catchy poetry combined with the beautiful watercolors by Tiphanie make a book that is appealing to children and also fun for the designated reader. It isn’t always easy to find picture books […]

Winter in New England, especially February weather, is dreary. While I dream of cruises to Alaska in the summer, in the winter I’m all about going on a Hawaii travel cruise! The folks at Travel Store USA make it easy to compare the prices of different cruise lines, and then arrange flights and […]

The wonderful novel Happy Hour at Casa Dracula has been re-released as a mass market paperback after its original release in trade paperback. I mentioned this book in a previous post about great vampire romances, and relished the idea of the story being available to a larger audience. Of course, I also relished the […]

We have a lot of windows in our house. Some days, that’s a Good Thing - we have a gorgeous view of the ocean if you tilt your head right, and even on cold days the sun warms us through the windows. However, if you want to eat lunch without going blind or […]

My youngest daughter is now weaned, so I should be out of the realm of frumpy clothes. In reality? I still have some of my clothes from high school. I was excited about the opportunity to wear dresses, and when my older daughters started telling me that I looked like a “before” […]

The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel is the much-anticipated fourth book in James Patterson’s young adult/tween Maximum Ride series. The series has attracted a large following as it puts the reader into the lives of a flock of six children who have been genetically designed to be 2% bird - they have wings […]

I don’t have any memories of watching Sonny and Cher as a kid. My earliest memory of Cher is watching her as the glamorous mom in Mermaids. I loved her stage presence, and her ability to capture the attention of everyone around her. I followed her as she performed in Moonstruck […]

My Soul to Keep (Dylan Foster Series #3) is the newest mystery and psychological thriller by Melanie Wells. Wells has previously written When the Day of Evil Comes and The Soul Hunter, both novels starring psychology professor Dylan Foster, who finds herself with appalling luck following her around. There are characters who are […]

When I was younger, I would frequently spend up to a week at a time alone with my grandparents. If I woke in the middle of the night, I would be soothed by the gentle ticking of the pendulum of their grandfather clock. I loved listening to the chimes every quarter hour, and […]

Beet is the newest novel by bestselling author Roger Rosenblatt. Beet is a (fictional) small, elite liberal arts college located about 40 minutes north of Boston. It and the small town with whom it shares a name were founded by a pig farmer, so the theme and mascot for both is a pig. Of […]