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I took a peek at my local library's used book sale. Logically, I don't NEED any more books - my TBR pile is perilously high - but I don't NOT NEED more books (gotta love double negatives!). So I came home with Orphan Train , a historical novel released in 2013, but if you like it (and I predict that you will), author Christina Baker Kline has plenty of other novels for you to enjoy. Including one being released today: The Foursome , the reimagining of an astonishing true sto

Now I have to add Mansfield Park to my TBR list! I've seen a movie of this Jane Austen book and may have read it years ago but now it's on my re-read list since Mansfield Park and This Motherless Land run along parallel paths. More about This Motherless Land From the acclaimed author of Wahala , a stunning reimagining of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park: Split between England and Nigeria, two extraordinary cousins are set on vastly different paths as they come to terms with thei

I reviewed Kim McCollum's second novel Harriet Hates Lemonade last week. Check it out HERE. But Kim is back this week for a fun interview so we can all learn more about the woman behind the words. You can also check out her WOW blog tour with plenty of book excerpts, guest posts, interviews, reviews and more HERE . Jodi: Harriet Hates Lemonade and your debut novel What Happens in Montana are similar because they both portray female friendships but in so many ways they ar

Harriet Hates Lemonade takes on the difficult subject of abusive relationships. I must confess that, in the beginning, I was reluctant to review the book because I've read some novels on this subject and they drifted into horror for me and made me question if I could finish them. But I want to let you know that any physical violence is "off-stage" or buffered by being the memory of a person while the book focuses on other aspects of abusive relationships. Stop by next week fo

I always mean to read Christmas-y books in December but either don't have the time or the books I've carefully put aside for December are...

More About Don't Let Me Keep You Don’t Let Me Keep You is a lyrical meditation on motherhood seven times over, gestating, unfurling with...

More About My Year of Casual Acquaintances When Mar Meyer's husband divorces her for another woman, she reacts by abandoning everything...

More About No Ordinary Thursday In No Ordinary Thursday, a family, broken by the shattering turns of a single day, will do anything to...