Josey Cirrini: Character Connection

Josey Cirrini is one of the main characters in Sarah Addison Allen’s The Sugar Queen. Josey was a little brat as a child. She pitched temper tantrums so epic that the people of her small town are still talking about them now that she’s an adult. And there is Josey’s problem. She’s grown, she’s changed, but no one recognizes […]

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Saturdays in the South Master List

These are all the authors who have been kind enough to stop by and guest post about the South. Robin Caroll—Injustice for All Michael Hervey—Soundkeeper Melinda McGuire—Josephine: Red Dirt and Whiskey Taylor M. Polites—The Rebel Wife Olivia deBelle Byrd—Miss Hildreth Wore Brown Susan Kelly—By Accident Kathryn Lively—Little Flowers I have an affiliate relationship with Malaprop’s, […]

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Fluke by Christopher Moore: Book Review

Nate Quinn has spent his entire professional career following humpback whales around the ocean, trying to find out exactly why the males sing. He’s currently in Hawaii, where the whales spend the winter, still researching. His world is rocked on the day that he is taking pictures of one singer and sees BITE ME clearly […]

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Moloka’i by Alan Brennert: Book Review

Seven-year-old Rachel Kalama is living in Honolulu in 1893. Her life is punctuated with a child’s hopes and dreams and drama. Her father is a sailor, and she loves it when he comes home on leave, mostly because she’s excited to see him, but also because she loves to hear his stories about the wider […]

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Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey: Book Review

This started out a little slow for me. It dragged along for about the first 150 pages. Then the action started and I couldn’t put it down. To oversimplify the plot, this is the story of Phèdre, a masochist who sleeps with her patrons not only for money, but also for state secrets. So, there were […]

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Rising Tide by John M. Barry: Book Review

Telling the story of an epic flood of the Mississippi River in 1927, this book explores the early history of flood control efforts and a rivalry that made flood controls at the time practically a joke, the politics involved in decisions for handling the flood itself, the politics of disaster relief, and the impact of […]

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