Ann Gabhart’s latest novel, Song of Sourwood Mountain (Revell Press 2024), explores the meaning of family and community. With its focus on a slow-developing romance, and overt evangelical religious values, the novel reads like a historical Christian romance in the tradition of Grace Livingston Hill. The Song of Sourwood Mountain tells the story of Mira […]
“The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!” by Mary Martha Greene
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Are you hungry? Because if you are, Mary Martha Greene will send you straight into the kitchen with her new book, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!. You’re probably not going to get past the first couple of recipes in this book before you have to gather your ingredients and make one of them. […]
“Good Eye, Bad Eye” by Jeanne Malmgren
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Readers of Jeanne Malmgren’s engaging memoir, Good Eye, Bad Eye, will find the universal themes and the clarity of her writing style appealing. From her personal story of trauma following a childhood eye injury, life truths emerge as Jeanne struggles to find her way in the world. This is not another poor-pitiful-me memoir. Instead, it […]
May 2025 Books of Note: Jim Melvin’s “Do You Believe in Magic?” and Jack Woodville London’s “Dangerous Latitudes”
May 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Do You Believe in Magic? (Green Bird Publishing 2025) by Jim Melvin is a highly imaginative fantasy novel starring three thirteen year olds who find themselves transformed from middle school outsiders into leaders with special powers when they travel through a portal into a parallel world. Billed as “Book One of the Dark Circle Trilogy,” […]
“Horse People” by Sara Warner
May 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Horse People (2025) by Sara Warner is absolutely everything a stellar book should be. At times it moved me to tears. Other times the actions of villainous characters left me nauseous. I am a dog person and don’t know horses, yet I fell in love with the horses in this novel. Sara Warner helped me […]
“Break My Fall” by Lynn H. Blackburn
May 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Alana Pate Break My Fall (Revell 2025) by Lynn H. Blackburn is an exceptional read about Meredith Quinn, a dentist who moves back to her small hometown Gossamer Falls, North Carolina. This story is about love and an investigation of the drug world of Neeson County, which neighbors Gossamer Falls. It hooked me […]