This is a young adult novel about Connecticut teen called Ilana. Ilana needs a job. She's tried applying all over her little town, but she's just too odd. No one wants to look behind the "Orc: The Other Green Meat" t-shirt to the hard worker she is ( Read more... )

I love the books by M.C. Beaton. That being said this is probably one of the weaker ones. Yes, I still enjoyed it immensely. Maybe I read it too quickly. Maybe I didn't pay a lot of attention to the plot (entirely likely ( Read more... )

This is a cozy mystery story which takes place in a tint town in Maine called Moosetookalook (the name cracks me up). The only Scottish connection is that our sleuth, Liss, owns 1/2 of the local Scottish store ( Read more... )

Now for something different. A non-fiction book. You probably have read or at least know a bit about this book because it's a #1 New York Times bestseller and because of the movie with Julia Roberts ( Read more... )

This book, while okay, seemed like a cross between the book A Vintage Affair and a movie that I saw called When in Rome. It wasn't really ( Read more... )

This book takes place in a small fictional village in Northern Ireland called Ballybucklebo. A doctor and his assistant doctor take care of the ills and woes of the village. That's mostly what happens ( Read more... )

This is a book for older kids, not yet young adults. Elizabeth, attending a new high school, feels friendless. Her mother has died and her father remarried and now she has older step-sisters. (Elizabeth doesn't see any resemblance to the story of Cinderella in her life ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I've written a review here. Now I'll try to catch up ( Read more... )

This book was written in the style of Dorothy Sayers and with help from her notes of what it was like to live through WWII. Jill Paton Walsh wrote the story. It's a Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane (now Mrs) story ( Read more... )

This book was okay. I think it was too long for me. It was written well but wasn't exceptional ( Read more... )