Book Review: Recipe for Persuasion, by Sonali Dev

Guest review by: Becki Bayley Smiling, they went back into the bustling kitchen. The Curried Dreams kitchen hadn’t bustled in a very long time. Baba had hated the idea of making people wait for food, so he had built his restaurant to be large enough to avoid that. He had underestimated...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Last Blue, by Isla Morley {ends 6/3}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley “Who I was is not who I am now.” “I couldn’t expect you to be exactly the same. I’m not the same, either.” For the sake of transparency, he describes the morose, indecisive, self-pitying bum he’s allowed himself to be the past few months. Still...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Legends from Mom's Closet, by Sasha Olsen {ends 5/28}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley Audrey Hepburn’s Classic Truths Wow! Hepburn was planning to be a ballerina, but because of problems with her health, she ended up becoming an actress instead. Hepburn’s favorite color was light blue, which is mine too! I think Hepburn and...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Glorious Boy, by Aimee Liu {ends 5/27}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley From her first day at the white house, Naila sensed she had been to this place before. Or near here. She knew the dusty sweet smell of this hill, that jungle of brush across the gully, the steep angle of the slope below the road. Or, she thought...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY - Advice I Ignored: Stories and Wisdom from a Formerly Depressed Teen, by Ruby Walker {ends 5/23}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley I’m trying to be a light. I can’t do everything perfectly. But I am good for good. Most of the time I can feel this energy shaking my lymph nodes. I know who I am: loved, empathetic, excitable, forgiving. I want to write the stories I needed before....

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: My Kind of People, by Lisa Duffy {ends 5/18}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley She follows Leo down the street, waiting for him to say something. He hasn’t spoken since they stood in the bedroom doorway and he said, “Come with me.” She thought they might sit at the kitchen table and talk about whatever he wanted to talk...

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Book Review: The Book of Two Ways, by Jodi Picoult

For someone who makes a living through death, I haven't given a lot of thought to my own. I have heard that when you are about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. But I do not picture my husband, Brian, his sweater streaked with inevitable chalk dust from the old-school...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The American Crusade, by Mark Spivak {ends 5/12}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley It was challenging for some people, even those as close to the situation as Robert Hornsby, to pinpoint the precise moment when the wheels came off the situation in Sumeristan. For many observers, the invasion started to unravel on August 9...

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