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Painting the Light by Sally Cabot Gunning (5*) Turn of the 20th century orphaned art student marries a charming prodigal and ends up on his family sheep farm on Martha's Vineyard neglected, belittled, her inheritance squandered, and most of the work. When he disappears, she finds her circumstances are more dire than she…
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I have 20 favorites on my Goodreads favorites list, and cannot choose one favorite literary child since each is special in its own way. How does one choose between Wendell Berry's so human Hannah Coulter or Kimberly Bradley Brubaker's magnificent YA The War that saved my Life or Connie Willis's oh so clever SiFi To Say…
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You're a stronger woman than I, ladyzherra, Jude left me so depressed I hardly had the energy to start another book!
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Greetings, gentle readers. I'm known as LadyCalico on Sparkpeople book groups and Goodreads, but MFP said that screenname was already used, so I had to change it a bit. With Sparkpeople closing there may be people from my old groups moving over here. I will be posting regularly and hope others join me. My mission is to…
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The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer (5*): A better than average, but often grim, historical novel about the destruction of Warsaw in WWII. Author keeps historical background authentic in a story about teens on either side of the Jewish ghetto who have very different philosophies about surviving the horrors of the German,…
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Sparkpeople site is closing. You may be receiving a surge of new members from the active book groups from that site.
