Posts tagged with ‘Solid B Reviews’
April 15, 2011
ENJOYABLE EDWARDIAN WHODUNNIT features an aristocratic detective, a dead foxhunting Earl, and a juicy mystery.
Grade: SOLID B
DEATH IN A SCARLET COAT
Soho/Constable
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
April 11, 2011
ROMANCE IS ALMOST an afterthought in this sweet, charming chick-lit book that celebrates grandmotherly love.
Grade: SOLID B
THE SECRET LIVES OF DRESSES
Grand Central Publishing
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
April 9, 2011
BANNED IN BOSTON! Engaging look at the history of the Watch and Ward Society, a private group of censors. SOLID B
BANNED IN BOSTON
Beacon
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
April 4, 2011
GRACEFUL, GENTLE, COMPLEX first novel follows an everyman bank manager through his daughter’s wedding day. SOLID B
YOU DON’T LOVE THIS MAN
HarperCollins Publishers
2011
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
March 28, 2011
THE PAST IS PRESENT in an atmospheric mystery featuring an English detective literally haunted by World War I.
Grade: SOLID B
A LONELY DEATH
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
March 23, 2011
CANDID, UPBEAT MEMOIR of divorce from a women’s magazine editor surprised by her husband’s choice to leave.
Grade: SOLID B
FALLING APART IN ONE PIECE: ONE OPTIMIST'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE HELL OF DIVORCE
Simon and Schuster
2010
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
March 20, 2011
THOUGHTFUL, WARM-HEARTED, and snarky memoir of high-risk parenting by the mother of an extremely premature baby.
Grade: SOLID B
HALF BAKED: THE STORY OF MY NERVES, MY NEWBORN, AND HOW WE BOTH LEARNED TO BREATHE
Running Press
2010
Tags: Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Parenting, Solid B Reviews
March 19, 2011
ROLLICKING HISTORICAL MYSTERY adds a salty madam of a heroine to the usual Victorian intrigue.
Grade: SOLID B
INDIA BLACK
Penguin/Berkley
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
March 16, 2011
SNARK MEETS SELF-HELP in this comedian’s memoir of her past relationship disasters. Some laughs, some insights.
Grade: SOLID B
I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR BAND
Gotham
2010
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
March 15, 2011
INSIDE LOOK AT the 1939 World’s Fair contrasts its official optimism with corruption, terrorism, world war.
Grade: SOLID B
TWILIGHT AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
Ballantine
2010
Tags: History, New York City, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, United States