Category: Book Reviews
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Love May Williams’ romances? It’s all because of Hillary
Congratulations to fellow Penner Publishing author, May Williams, on the wonderful receiving of her most recent novels! She’s made the U.S.A. Today Happily Ever After Blog!
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Books, Books and More Books!
Check out my haul of exceptional reading from my trip to Barnes and Noble yesterday
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The Original Bodice-Ripper and the Emergence of the Romance Novel
Recently I read an article on NPR entitled Happily Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances. Apparently NPR had taken a poll of readers to discover what romance novels would rank in the top 100. They had to close the poll early because the response was overwhelming. Everybody had an opinion. On the list was some of…
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Book Review: Go Set a Watchman
Anyone who knows even the tiniest thing about me knows that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is, in my opinion, the best book ever written. In too many ways to even try counting, the themes contained within its pages have shaped me into the person I am today. The idea of “walking around in someone…
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Why Amazon May Decide Not to Post Your Book Review
So…here’s my tangent today and I’d like to share it with all of you. Yesterday I noticed a post on my Facebook feed about a petition to prevent Amazon from arbitrarily deciding not to post book reviews based upon their belief that the reviewer might know the author. What this means is that if you…
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Book Review: Bully – A Fall Away Novel by Penelope Douglas
A couple of years ago I read a book by Colleen Hoover entitled Hopeless. It was the first title I’d ever read in the new category dubbed as “New Adult.” It was a cross between Young Adult Fiction, with characters in their late teens, and Adult Fiction because it included themes that were a bit…
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Book Review: The Mapmaker’s Children
Several weeks ago I entered a raffle for a free copy of Sarah McCoy‘s newest novel, The Mapmaker’s Children. I’d never heard of McCoy, but the premise of her novel looked interesting. It implied the intersecting of a Civil War-era Abolitionist woman and a modern-day woman who moves to a small town with a significant…
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Judy Blume Free Book Giveaway
I have been a HUGE fan of Judy Blume practically since birth. I remember reading Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing in 3rd grade…4th grade….5th grade…10th grade…at 22…at 32…at 44…I’ll stop there! I have always adored her. Today I found out there she has a new book out and is giving away 10 free AUTOGRAPHED…
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Book Review – Clearer in the Night
Once upon a time, I was an avid reader of fiction with a supernatural element. I absolutely devoured Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Series, and then fell in love with Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. From there, I picked up just about anything I could get my hands on that included vampires, werewolves,…
C.H. Armstrong Books 