Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough If you haven’t read any of Ann Ross’s Miss Julia series, you have missed a clever protagonist and delightful character with whom you could have become quite close. Miss Julia is a light-plotted Miss Marple with a touch of Jan Karon’s easy-going, Southern, genteel, feminine style (think Mitford series). Ms. […]
A Dog Named Slugger, by Leigh Brill
June 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy “I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I’m not so good at carrying things. And if I drop stuff, sometimes it’s hard to just bend […]
Sautee Shadows by Denise Weimer
June 8, 2011 by 1 Comment
Click to Buy SAUTEE SHADOWS Written by Denise Weimer Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Billed on the cover as Book One of the Georgia Gold Trilogy, Sautee Shadows is a historical novel about the South during the mid-1800s. Weimer’s Georgia roots give her credibility as to understanding what Southern life was all about […]
Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
April 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Year of Our Lord : Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta Written by: T.R. Pearson Photography by: Langdon Clay Review by: Paul H. Yarbrough Year of Our Lord is a biography of an extraordinary man named Lucas McCarty who claims he is “white on the outside but black […]
Fastor Pastor by Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards
February 15, 2011 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy It’s difficult to corral a book review around a few hundred words when you have enjoyed almost every last multiple-thousands of them; nevertheless, in a nutshell, the novel, Faster Pastor, by Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards is a wonderful story. McCrumb has put together a superb […]