Fear of Fighting by Stacey May Fowles (illus. Marlena Zuber)

It’s pretty much part of Dating 101 that you keep your crazy under wraps for as long as possible. It’s best to wait until there’s an L-bomb or a ring involved, when it becomes harder for the other person to make a clean getaway. (I always think of Carla’s advice on Scrubs: “He doesn’t know [...]

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Come, Thou Tortoise, by Jessica Grant

I’m not sure when Come, Thou Tortoise first grabbed my attention. I could been wandering through a bookstore, and locked eyes with a new Kelly Hill design (who is so brilliant that all of her covers convince me a brief TPL loan just will NOT do). It may have been the review from the much-admired [...]

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Good to a Fault, by Marina Endicott

A confession: I thought Good to a Fault was going to be a literary slog — something akin to stomping through knee-deep snow. Bleak and exhausting, with a risk of losing sensation in the extremities. It had a lot of strikes against it: sad, middle-aged woman, extended moral dilemmas, cloying domesticity, even the prairies for [...]

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