These love medicines is something of an old Chippewa specialty. No other tribe has got them down so well. But love medicines is not for the layman to handle. You don’t just go out and get one without paying for it. Before you get one, even, you should go through one hell of a lot [...]
Posts under ‘Five-Ten Star Books’
City of Refuge – Book Review
Every year as August wanes and the school year looms, New Orleans can expect to see at least one or two storms. They are as much a part of the calendar as Thanksgiving or Easter. Many people who can leave town do so, driving to Baton Rouge, or Lafayette, or Jackson or Houston, just [...]
A Disobedient Girl – Book Review
Where is my village? Where do I live? I live on this train. I used to live in one place and I will live in another but now I live in this perfect place between the past and the future, the known and the unknown, the bad and the good. – from A Disobedient Girl, [...]
The Help – Book Review
Miss Skeeter move her eyes back to the window, on Miss Hilly’s Buick. She shake her head, just a little. “Aibileen, that talk in there…Hilly’s talk. I mean…”
I pick up a coffee cup, start drying it real good with my cloth.
“Do you ever wish you could…change things?” she asks.
And I can’t help myself. I look [...]
In Hovering Flight – Paperback Release
I read In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld in February of this year (read my review) … and absolutely loved it. It was one of those rare books that has stuck with me. I still think about it from time to time, remembering the way the book made me feel as I got to [...]
Sea of Poppies – Book Review
It was Kabutri’s question that triggered Deeti’s vision: her eyes suddenly conjured up a picture of an immense ship with two tall masts. Suspended from the masts were great sails of a dazzling shade of white. The prow of the ship tapered into a figurehead with a long bill, like a stork or a [...]
Unaccustomed Earth – Book Review
It was like the painting they’d first looked at together in London, the small mirror at the back revealing more than the room at first appeared to contain. – from Only Goodness, page 157 -
Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories – Unaccustomed Earth – reveals more about the relationships between its multi-faceted characters than [...]
In Hovering Flight – Book Review
The years of Scarlet’s migration, through the decade of the 1990s up to this cool and puzzling spring of 2002, were relatively quiet ones for Addie. Had her mother somehow been holding her breath, reining herself in, waiting to see how far south, and now how near to this overdeveloped coastline, Scarlet would fly? [...]
50 Must Read Novels
I have seen a few other bloggers creating their own Best Lists of books – and I decided I would do the same. The list below are books I have read which I think are MUST READS. Many of these have been reviewed on Caribousmom – you can find all books reviewed (alphabetically by [...]
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= Ugh! Don't waste your time.
