Book Reviews

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Books I recommend.

Front cover of Amy Snow a novel by Tracy Rees

Amy Snow A Novel by Tracy Rees

  AMY SNOW by Tracy Rees Winner of the UK’s Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition   This is the blurb on the back cover that lured me:           Abandoned as an infant in a snowbank in 1831 on the grounds of an estate in England, Amy Snow is discovered by the young heiress Aurelia Vennaway. Despite Aurelia’s parents’ cold and unwelcoming disapproval, the girls grow up as close as sisters. So when […]

Front cover of My Reading Life by Pat Conroy

My Reading Life by Pat Conroy

My editor, Bill Hammond, posted this on FaceBook:  “I am reading Pat Conroy’s, MY READING LIFE and when I am through, I will read it again.” A better recommendation, I’ve never received.  I immediately checked Sarasota’s library catalog and it was indeed there, and in Large Print.  If you can read it in Large Print, do so, the better to indulge Mr. Conroy’s large, voluptuous vocabulary. I found a comfortable seat in the lounge with […]