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You Don’t Have To Finish That Book
Once upon a time I had a terrible curse placed on me (probably by tabloid dirt troll or a vapid magazine fairy, or the lingering ghosts of a hundred Gothic authors): I could not stop reading a...
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Murder In Mississippi, by John Safran
It’s been over ten years since John Safran first exploded onto my radar in his hilarious and confronting John Safran’s Music Jamboree. While the brilliance and daring of that show has stuck with me...
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The Martian – by Andy Weir
Mark Watney is not having a good day. It started out great: he’s on Mars, part of a manned mission of exploration. His day got a bit worse: A savage storm blows in, its intensity and size enough to...
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The Quantum Breach, by Denver Acey (Book Review)
Denver Acey’s novel The Quantum Breach had me second guessing every piece of paper (bank statement, bulk mail out, envelope with my grandmother’s address on it) I put in my recycling or bin and...
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Book Review: My Name is Resolute
Several years ago, one of my favorite reading buddies recommended a book to me and promised I would fall in love with it. I reluctantly agreed to try it, though the title sounded a little strange and I...
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Mental Fairy Floss
I’m in my mid-semester uni break, and seem to be deficient in Vitamin Fiction. So I’m self-medicating with the (at last count) thirty-seven fiction books I have scattered around my bedroom. At the...
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Book Review: This is How We Grow by Christina Hibbert
Title: This is How We Grow: A Psychologist’s Memoir of Loss, Motherhood, and Discovering Self-Woth and Joy, One Season at a Time Author: Christina Hibbert Enjoyment Rating: **** Content Alert: none...
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The Bishop’s Wife – by Mette Ivie Harrison
What does a knock at your front door early in the morning mean to you: curiosity or alarm? What if you knew a couple from church and one day the wife was reported missing, or her husband said she had...
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Book Review: Girls Who Choose God by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding
Daniel and the lions’ den. Noah’s ark. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the fiery furnace. Nephi and the broken bow. What do these stories (and hundreds more like them) have in common? Well, for one...
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Book Review: Women at Church by Neylan McBaine
In the Sunday morning session of General Conference this weekend, President Eyring told the story of how he traveled to a “small city far away” to confer the sealing power on a man whose “hands showed...
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Book Review: Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons by Zandra Vranes and Tamu Smith
Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons: Finding the Lord’s Lessons in Everyday Life Authors:Zandra Vranes and Tamu Smith Back in 2011, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sista Beehive and Sista Laurel (aka...
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Book Review: Walking With the Women of the New Testament
It’s a good year for books for LDS women. The Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons, Neylan McBaine’s Women at Church, and the LDS authored, broader appealing Girls Who Choose God just among those we’ve...
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Book Review: Candy Canes and Christmastime
We are days, hours even from the biggest gifting, making, baking, mailing, visiting, hosting, wrapping, singing, cooking, things-to-be doing holiday of the year, not to mention the commemoration of...
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2014 Whitneys: General Fiction Finalists
This is a short review/synopsis of the 2014 Whitney General finalists. This year four of the five books seemed more inspirational, and that’s not my favorite genre, so I will tell you up front I’m not...
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2014 Whitney Awards: Young Adult Finalists
I’m pretty open about the fact that I love young adult fiction, both as a reader and as a writer. I know the same is true for a lot of my friends, largely because books written for teens are less...
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Blood on the Water: A William Monk Novel by Anne Perry (Ballantine, Sept. 2014) The setting for Blood on the Water, is, like the other books in the William Monk series, Victorian London. When a...
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2014 Whitney Awards: Romance Finalists
When I first started reading books for the Whitney Awards about half a decade ago, I was enthusiastic about the general fiction books and the young adult books (that’s back in the old days when there...
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2014 Whitney Awards: Middle Grade Finalists
I feel fortunate to be the one writing about the Middle Grade Whitney finalists, because there’s not a bad book in the bunch– all five were delightful and interesting in their own (quite varied) ways....
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Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon
A year ago we reviewed the first book in the Girls Who Choose God series, Stories of Strong Women from the Bible. Today we are very pleased to share that it was so well-received, a second book, Girls...
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Book Review: Bearskin by Jamie Robyn Wood
When I was a little girl, I drank fairy tales like breakfast orange juice. I wanted many sips every day. The obsession with them did not stop when I got older and I even took courses about fairy tales...
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