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In tribute to Sidney Sheldon, a great writer who passed away January 30, 2007 at the age of 89, I’m going to review his books. If you were a reader of popular fiction in the 1980’s and early part of the 1990’s, you probably read a few of his books.
Sheldon was quoted in a […]

This is one of the books in the Elm Creek Quilt series by Jennifer Chiaverini, her seventh. Although it’s the seventh book she’s written in the series, this one takes us back in time to a few years before the Civil War in the United States, a time frame that is chronologically the earliest […]

Mary Higgins Clark is the author or co-author of over 30 books, many of them best-selling suspense stories. Carol Higgins Clark is her daughter and has written several books of her own along with a few that she’s co-authored with her mother.
Because I’ve read most of Mary Higgins Clark’s books and have enjoyed most […]

Christmas Letters is the third Debbie Macomber book I have read. What I like best about her books is the close knit communities she builds in her books. It makes me feel a little removed from today’s hustle and bustle world where people don’t know and don’t care to know their neighbors; […]

If you’re familiar with Hannibal Lector (he was the main character in “Silence of the Lambs,” another book by Thomas Harris that was made into a highly successful screenplay), this is the book that gives some insight into what made Hannibal into the evil and disturbed person many of us first read about in Red […]

This was a great easy reading book; at times sad, happy, touching, and heartwarming.
Richard Paul Evans also wrote “The Christmas Box” which was a great book so I had high expectations for this book and I wasn’t disappointed. After Evan’s mother, who was his biggest supporter and fan, passed away in February 2006, Evans […]

Ever since my husband read a self improvement book last year that recommended a person go wild and really de-clutter their living quarters (and after being harassed about doing it so long that I finally gave in and did it just so my husband would quit bugging me), I’ve become more aware of how much […]