Review:A pretty good cozy mystery among the country club set. Ellison is married to the philandering husband. Then she begins to find one body after another. Why doesn't she tell the handsome detective what she suspects? Makes sense at first, but after a third person dies and her home is burglarized, I was just a tiny bit irritated with her. She didn't see the clues that were dropping all around her. Read more

Review:The plot was somewhat predictable yet still enjoyable and entertaining. I loved the descriptions of sensory experiences, especially the food. I was invested in the characters' lives and felt immersed in Indian culture. Read more

Review:I started this book with a lot of interest and anticipation because I usually love books that deal with other cultures. The story premise was good, but the author belabored the story with way too much poetic description. I got tired of reading about the environment, humidity and light and wished to just end the story. I skimmed a lot just to see how she would finish what could've been a better book. Read more

Review:The best part of this book, the way Stewart provided the backstory of Constance's accidental stumbling into position of deputy sheriff. Constance evolves and ferrets who she is in her self-discovering sojourn as we read of one inspiring woman tapping into her authentic self.

Constance, a maverick, fascinating, in short a remarkable woman. A woman refusing to fit into societal expectations, norms. Constance wanted to pursue a career, however, her mother disagreed with her desires, as well ... Read more

Review:I'm a big Amy Stewart fan so when she took the headlong plunge into fiction, I came right along for the ride! I don't read a lot of fiction, but I'm definitely ready for book #3 in this series. Girl Waits With Gun had such great characters and I love how the story line in this second book gave Stewart the opportunity to shine a much deserved light right on Constance Kopp. The story is a period piece, but written with contemporary sensibilities... and that really appeals to me. Furthermore, any b... Read more

Review:I often wonder why some books make the bestseller list when they shouldn't and others don't when they should. Carry Me Home should have. It's an eloquent story that's filled with sensitivity, humanity, and emotional depth.

Set in a small town in Wisconsin during WWII, Carry Me Home lets us enter the lives of sweet and perceptive 16-year-old "Earwig," his parents, his brother Jimmy, and friends. When Jimmy goes off to war and becomes a POW, Earwig learns to become a man and takes a job ... Read more

Review:Alcoholism, finding your birth mom, internet porn addiction, breast cancer, lesbianism - this was like a marathon of Lifetime movies!
It goes without saying that many things will happen over a 40-year friendship, but it was just too much of a stretch to believe that every one of these women would undergo their own 'trendy' topic.
The chapters dragged on and I found myself skipping over big sections - especially when I caught on to the fact that each woman was going to neatly wrap up her o... Read more

Review:I remembered this novel from my teenage years, having read it then with enjoyment. At this time in life, however, I found it poorly conceived and, well ... boring. I didn't even finish it. As a science writer, Asimov was superb in my opinion. As a writer of fiction he was not in the same class as the greatest (Heinlein) although some of his fiction was certainly enjoyable. But not this. Read more

Review:It is interesting to see Hari Seldon without his absolute certainty and to watch him stumble through awkward social situations as he tries to learn the equations that will explain the future. The episodes, though, are desperately boring. There doesn't ever seem to be a dramatic point, he simply goes from place to place and fumbles around, picking up a few strays along the way. The concept is brilliant, the application sadly lacking. Read more

Review:In the Robots of dawn, Author Isaac Asimov offers a Socratic argument for the existence and blossoming humanity of robots. And the narrative introduces the theory of psychohistory which will come to fruition in the later Foundation series. In Foundation, humanoid robots, introduced in Robots of Dawn, function in society as equals of humans. Without doubt, Asimov is the father of modern sci-fi and the philosophy of robotics in the real world. Read more