by jim newell | Aug 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: Sandra Brown Starred Review. Bestseller Brown (Smash Cut) brings Depression-era Texas to vivid life in this poignant short novel. At the recommendation of Dr. Murdy Kincaid, Ella Barron, a hardworking woman whose husband deserted her, accepts David Rainwater,...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | 4 Bees
Author: Keith Richards and Robert Goolrick The Club read two books this month. Life is an autobiographical book about Keith Richards’ life. A Reliable Wife is a story of a woman who responds to an ad for a “reliable wife.” Catherine Land answers...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | Not Bee Rated
Author: John Updike Set in the small, seaside town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, this story involves 3 witches and their involvement in the people of the town as well as a newcomer from New York who purchased an old estate in town. We spent some time talking about the...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | 3 Bees
Author: Audrey Niffenegger Twin sisters living in the suburbs of Chicago inheret an apartment in London from their aunt whom they have never met. As a condition of their inheretance, they must live in the flat which borders Highgate Cemetery, without their parents for...
by jim newell | Jul 6, 2011 | 3 Bees
Author: Lisa Grunwald In the early 1960’s, Wilton College conducted a course of child raising using orphans from a local orphanage. Henry House was one such orphan, and this story follows him into adulthood. Henry struggles with commitment issues and his...