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Meredith, Alone
Claire Alexander, due out November 2022 What an engrossing, very readable story. I couldn’t put it down. Meredith has not left her Glasgow home in over 1800 days. She has her routines: exercise, housework, baking, cooking, personal hygiene, the care and maintenance of Fred the cat. No sweatpants and hoodies …
Sick of Shadows
Marion Chesney – Edwardian Mysteries #3 Rose and Harry, engaged in name only, compete to solve crimes, with Daisy and Becket serving as the Fred and Ethel to their Lucy and Desi. Repeated romantic misunderstandings and foot-stamping rebellion on Rose’s part (against her parents’ rules, Harry’s rules, and Edwardian England’s …
Why I’m Yours, even though I’m Not Yours
Arina Avram This review, written by Catherine Beeman, originally appeared in Reedsy Discovery. Poetry is such a subjective medium; what inspired the poet, and will the same sentiment move the reader of the poem? Scholars, of course, are able to evaluate poetry based on literary merit – competent use of …
Hasty Death
Book 26 in the A to Z Mystery Tour Marion Gibbons writing as Marion Chesney – Edwardian Mysteries #2 – 2003 Lady Rose Summer, Captain Harry Cathcart, Daisy Levine, and Becket return for another round of crime-solving in Edwardian England. Marion Gibbons, whether writing as M.C. Beaton or Marion Chesney, …
The Candy House
Jennifer Eagan 2022 Maybe it’s the format. It could be that a print version might have been more comprehensible. The premise sounded so intriguing: the ability to upload one’s consciousness to a collective online platform, making it available to others. The first chapter, which was the most coherent in the …
Three Things About Elsie
Joanna Cannon 2018 Thank heaven for Elsie, Florence Claybourne’s lifelong friend. What would Florence have done without her all these years? What would Florence do without her now, faced with the sinister presence of Gabriel Price? Thank heaven for Elsie. Mr. Price has just moved into Cherry Tree Home for …
Underdog Days
A Reedsy Discovery Review Carlos Lerma is a poet, and he knows it. He is also an artist and letter writer, and you, lucky reader, get to experience Carlos in all of his imperfect perfection. The collection has numerous standouts; eventually I had to stop highlighting favorites. “Dependent,” a poem …
A Memoir of the Kalyug
Kamaljit Kaur 2022 This review was written for and originally published on Reedsy Discovery. Kamaljit was born in the UK, the youngest daughter of Sikh parents who emigrated from the Punjab region in India before she was born. Sickly as a child and frequently hospitalized, she was treated with kindness …