Hope in a Jar by Elizabeth Harbison

This was a great, light read- – chick lit.  I really enjoyed it as I could relate to the setting of the book.  Meet three high school friends as they reunite at their 20th high school reunion. The book flashes back and forth from the late 1980’s to the present day. Allie and Olivia were [...]

The Perfect Christmas by Debbie Macomber

What a disappointment! I have enjoyed all of Macomber’s recent fiction, but this novel is as predictable as an old Harlequin romance, and just as straining to any sense of credibility. A working woman in her early thirties goes to a matchmaker who guarantees to find her  a husband for the price of $30,000.00? How [...]

Who by Fire by Diana Spechler

Who by Fire by Diana Spechler is a story of Jewish guilt embedded in a culture of self-pity and escape.  This dysfunctional family is like the proverbial nursery rhyme: “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put [this family] together again.” Or can they? A family is destroyed after the youngest child [...]