I really wanted to like The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee. Yes, despite its unnecessarily long title. (Anyone else getting The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society flashbacks???)
This Japanese novel by Saki Kawashiro (translated by Yuka Maeno) has food, it has healing, and it has community. The description of the book even reminded me my women’s fiction novel, Desserted, that I still hope to find a home for:...
The perfect Halloween rom-com exists in the form of Haunted Ever After. Get ready, Tartlets, for the sweetest ghostly beach read out there.
What’s Haunted Ever After about?
We meet main character Cassie in Haunted Ever After just after she’s moved to her dream beach cottage in Boneyard Key, Florida. She got the house for a steal and plans to renovate it – but, of course, there’s a reason why.
Um, it’s haunted. Just like the rest of...
First of all, many thanks to author Gail Priest for reaching out to me about her novel Soul Dancing. Gail’s a loyal Tartlet, and she offered to send me a review copy of her book since she knows I love women’s fiction and supernatural stories.
Well, Gail, let’s remove all the suspense – I loved Soul Dancing. I’m so glad you sent it my way!
What’s Soul Dancing about?
We meet elderly main character Shirlene at the very beginning of...
I’m usually not picky about where I read books. In bed, on the couch, in a waiting room -- anywhere is fair game as a place to sneak in some reading.
But, the only time I read Infinite Paradise: Witnessing the Wild, a Memoir was when I sat on my garden patio in the cool of a summer evening, while sipping a glass of homemade lemonade and listening to birdsong.
It was absolutely perfect.
What’s Infinite Paradise about? In Infinite...
I loved absolutely everything about Bees in June. It’s a magical, uplifting, endearing, and charming story. Think Waitress meets Midnight at the Blackbird Café. With bees.
What’s Bees in June about?
Bees in June is about Rennie, a young woman stuck in an unhappy and increasingly abusive marriage. Rennie needs to find meaning in her life after her newborn son passes away and her husband withdraws from their relationship. When she...
I really thought that How the Hell Did I Not Know That?: My Midlife Year from Couch to Curiosity was going to be the perfect read for me.
I’m not exactly midlife, but I’m getting closer.
I’m not retired, but I wish I were. Every damn day.
And, the biggest draw of all: author Lucie Frost seems to be as obsessed as I am with the reality TV show 90 Day Fiancé. So, her book and I seemed like a match made in heaven.
Except How the Hell...
I thoroughly enjoyed reading I Love You: Recipes from the Heart. And nothing has surprised me more.
Why? Because the author is… Pamela Anderson.
Yep, my fellow Elder Millennials. That Pamela Anderson. Has written. A COOKBOOK. An absolutely wonderful cookbook that you need to buy and read and start cooking from.
What’s I Love You: Recipes from the Heart about?
Pamela Anderson’s cookbook overflows with cozy, simple, rustic, nature-based...
You know I’m all about the self-help, self-care, and woo-woo stuff these days, Tartlets. So, I was excited when author Robin Emtage offered me an ARC of her new book Keep On Glowing: Your Guide to Graceful Empowerment and Unstoppable Glow. It sounded right up my alley.
What’s Keep On Glowing about? Keep On Glowing is a guide to helping women rediscover and maintain a sense of self-confidence so that they can “glow” from within.
Your...
Given that James was recently awarded a Pulitzer Prize, I figured it might be a good time to post my book review of this reimagined masterpiece by Percival Everett.
This one is worth the hype, Tartlets.
What’s James about?
James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the enslaved man Jim (James), who accompanies Tom and Huck along their adventures in the original Twain story. We...
I had really high hopes for The Alchemy of Flowers by Laura Resau. This women’s fiction novel promised magical realism, romance, mystery, and lots and lots of flowers. While all these things appear in the book, I still feel there could have been more.
A little more magical realism. A little more suspense. And a lot less romance.
Let’s get into it.
What is The Alchemy of Flowers about?
The Alchemy of Flowers is about mid-forties...
