Posts tagged with ‘Solid B Reviews’
February 20, 2013
QUIRKY MEDITATIONS ON love and loss throughout history, and in the writer’s personal life. Entertaining!
Grade: SOLID B
THE LITTLE BOOK OF HEARTBREAK: LOVE GONE WRONG THROUGH THE AGES
Plume
2013
Tags: History, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews
February 18, 2013
WHIMSICAL WOMEN’S FICTION features vivid local (Anchorage, Alaska!) color, a memorable single-mom heroine.
Grade: SOLID B
DOLLS BEHAVING BADLY
Grand Central
2013
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
February 16, 2013
COZY WWII-ERA MYSTERY set in rural Georgia features a spunky old-maid schoolteacher as sleuth. Nicely done.
Grade: SOLID B
MISS DIMPLE SUSPECTS
St. Martin's Press
2013
Tags: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews, World War II
February 14, 2013
IN A FLORIDA TOWN haunted by a savage 1930s crime, family histories are revealed and redemptions sought.
Grade: SOLID B
AMERICAN GHOST
Scribner
2012
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
February 12, 2013
SHOCKING, TOUCHING, SALTY memoir from singer Bettye LaVette follows the highs and lows of her career and life.
Grade: SOLID B
A WOMAN LIKE ME
Penguin/Blue Rider Press
2012
Tags: African American Writers, Detroit, Memoirs, Music, Non-Fiction, Rhythm and Blues Music, Solid B Reviews
February 6, 2013
A WINE CRITIC’S CHATTY, engaging memoir advocates informed enjoyment of wine, not competitive connoisseurship.
Grade: SOLID B
HOW TO LOVE WINE: A MEMOIR AND MANIFESTO
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Wine and Spirits Writing
February 3, 2013
FUGITIVE HUMANS ON a planet under the tyrannical rule of other alien species = deftly handled space thriller.
Grade: SOLID B
HARMONY
Rebellion/Solaris
2012
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
February 2, 2013
RICH IN DETAIL and compassion, a gentle satire of surburban Jewish life revolves around a family in crisis.
Grade: SOLID B
THE MIDDLESTEINS
Grand Central
2012
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
January 31, 2013
A VERY NEW YORK story about a charming, disaffected teenager and his parents and their partners. Sweet.
Grade: SOLID B
THESE THINGS HAPPEN
Unbridled Books
2012
Tags: LGBTQ Interest, New York City, Novels, Solid B Reviews
January 27, 2013
REAL LIFE ADVENTURE in the jungles of Honduras as a journalist searches for the fabled, long lost White City.
Grade: SOLID B
JUNGLELAND: A MYSTERIOUS LOST CITY, A WWII SPY, AND A TRUE STORY OF DEADLY ADVENTURE
HarperCollins
2013
Tags: History, Honduras, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, Travel Writing