Book Review: Love Does (Part 1)

If you watch this video, you won’t regret it. If you watch this video, you might cry. (Fair warning.) The grand marshal – the beautiful boy with the amazing smile, is a Ugandan boy who fell victim to a witchdoctor. Bob Goff’s law firm brought this...

Mid-Book Book Review: Divergent

Yes, you read that correctly. I’m only half-way through Divergent, but I feel I need to review it so far. I’ve read a lot of YA Dystopian novels ever since my Barnes&Noble insider turned me on to The Hunger Games in 2009 — Matched, The Maze Runner,...

Movie Review: The Hunger Games

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”  – President Snow Overall impression –  “The book is always better than the movie.” The old adage holds true, but The Hunger Games movie stands on its own and does the book justice. Yes,...

Book Review: A Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

Description: Los Angeles, 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern’s life seemed destined to unfold with the predictable elegance of a Bach concerto. Then she fell in love with Lane Moritomo. Her brother’s best friend, Lane is the handsome, ambitious son of Japanese...

Book Review: The Maid of Fairbourne Hall

Description: Pampered Margaret Macy flees London in disguise to escape pressure to marry a dishonorable man. With no money and nowhere else to go, she takes a position as a housemaid in the home of Nathaniel Upchurch, a suitor she once rejected in hopes of winning his...

Book Review: A Whisper of Peace

Description: Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie Dawson lives alone in the mountains of Alaska, practicing the ways of her people even as she resides in the small cabin her father built for her mother. She dreams of reconciling with her...