Category: Women’s fiction

  • Meanwhile, don’t miss this uplifting novel

    Bob Moyer reviews a new novel that sounds like the book we need to read these days. It is a joy to read, he says. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer HOW TO READ A BOOK. By Monica Wood. Mariner Books. 273 pages. $28.00 Coincidence. When it happens in our lives, it is remarkable. The phone…

  • Mystery, history and the lives of women

    Reviewed by Linda C. Brinson ASHTON HALL. By Lauren Belfer. Penguin Random House Audio. Read by Jayne Entwhistle and Kristen Sieh. 12 hours, 38 minutes. Also available in hardback from Ballantine Books. Don’t start listening to (or reading) this book unless you have some time to spare. Once you start, you won’t want to stop.…