Meteorologist Mommy
Amy checked her lipstick for the ninth time, took another drink of water for her dry mouth, clutched her notebook to her chest with...
May 16


The Licanius Trilogy, by James Islington
I just waded through three gloriously large books. The Shadow of What Was Lost, An Echo of Things to Come, and The Light of All that...
Nov 1, 2024
Timbers Consumed
Nobody ever complained about the Thompson’s lawn. The HOA did not come after them for putting garish cement ornaments all over the place,...
Sep 16, 2024


Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
Have you ever had a good cup of coffee? Not the stale kind you drink from the gas station when you’ve got an hour more to drive to get...
Aug 1, 2024
FriendlyLocalNeighborhood.com
Angie Brown: ISO elder care helper. I tried to get one through CareLink but they was terrible.. My uncle just wants someone to talk to....
Jul 18, 2024


Corduroy Mansions, by Alexander McCall Smith
I think Alexander McCall Smith’s book No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is fairly well known, but I ran across this other book by him the...
Jul 1, 2024
The Gatherer, by Kit Trzebunia
I’m excited to review a book by an author I actually know! In the country of Moran there’s a song that only appears when the country of...
Apr 2, 2024
Haunted Housekeeper
First of all, you should know that a haunted house can’t choose to be a haunted house. A house has to reflect the character of the people...
Mar 18, 2024
A Stranger in the Forest
Chrysalises weren’t supposed to change quite like that, Betsey thought, staring up at the delicate green pouch hanging off the branches...
Feb 15, 2024
How To Be Unexceptional When Almost Everybody Else Is A Superhero
On Thursday Rob Smith found out he was a superhero. Whoopee. How fantastic. I suppose you’re already judging me for not being excited,...
Jan 20, 2024
More Arms Needed
Have you ever tried to change a teleporting baby's diaper? She’d vanish as soon as I got the special transportation-blocking diaper...
Nov 16, 2023
The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
I don’t remember where I heard that Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons” was a good book or how it got on my list. For about...
Nov 1, 2023
Do You Know What Good It Does?
Not being a huge fan of the ocean, my mermaids are never of the singing, starry-eyed fork-collecting type.... “By the late Tidal Era, two...
Oct 18, 2023


Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynn Jones
A friend and I recently attended Bilbo Baggins’ 111th birthday party. That’s right. The Party of Special Magnificence itself! We didn’t...
Sep 29, 2023
The Witness
When she walked down Main Street, no matter who she was with, she looked for three things: the horses tied up at the mercantile to see...
Sep 18, 2023
Gift of the Fairies
My mother used to cut my sister’s hair in the garden so she could be seen through the neighbor’s window. Our neighbor was a fairy. “If a...
Jul 16, 2023
Other Minds
My daughter drew an interesting and strange creature a few weeks ago, and I started asking her questions about it, trying to draw a story...
Jun 16, 2023
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
I just finished a book titled “Amongst Our Weapons.” And yes, that is a reference to Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition. It’s book 9 of...
Nov 1, 2022

