Many emotions course through Girls In Trouble: excitement, fear, happiness, love, forgiveness, acceptance, jealousy, and the all powerful anger. With her flowing dialogue and decorative prose, Leavitt draws readers into the life of two families forever connected by one blessed event. Birth. I originally reviewed Girls in Trouble for BellaOnline. Read the full review of…
After twenty-nine years in Cuba Havana, Teresa de la Caridad Dovalpage lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she is a Ph.D. student and Spanish instructor at the University of New Mexico. She has been writing since she was fourteen
Cosmopolitan compared it to Bridget Jones but this book is really about loss. It isn’t about the laughs and it isn’t about finding someone to spend the rest of your life with. I originally reviewed this book for Linear Reflections and reprinted it for Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. Read the full review.
Look out! This full time writer from Danbury, CT is raiding the bookshelves. Lauren has been writing since the tender age of twelve but she didn’t hit what most writers deem the big time (publication) until 2003 when her off-colour
Who is Flash Jackson? Flash is the alter ego of 16 year old Haley Bombauer, a tomboy in search of her authentic self. The self she learns was there all along. This was a coming of age story that I thoroughly enjoyed. This review was originally published at Linear Reflections then again at Literary Fiction,…
It is not necessary to read 1916 and 1921 to follow 1949, although it might help when reference is made to significant events from previous periods, especially if you have little knowledge of Irish history. The review for 1949 originial appeared in Linear Reflections and was republished at Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. Read the entire review…
Residing in a 1865 brick townhouse in Hoboken, NJ, “New York City’s unofficial 6th borough,” seems to be the perfect setting for Caroline Leavitt to write.
Auster’s voice is relaxed, honest and comfortable to listen to as he continues with Twenty Days reading Hawthorne’s “account of a man taking care of his child by himself”. Hawthorne wrote about his interactions and observations of his five year old son Julian during a three week period in 1851 while his wife and daughter…