Book Review
Sailing the Milky Way
by Karen Rigby
A fanciful interpretation of a nighttime ritual, the energetic picture book "Sailing the Milky Way" centers creative dreaming and looking forward. A peaceful bedtime story, Eileen Ferriter’s picture book "Sailing the Milky Way" follows...
Book Review
Three Castles Burning
by Karen Rigby
Donal Fallon’s guide to Dublin, "Three Castles Burning", investigates the city in search of places where the past and present meet. Based on the popular podcast of the same name, the book concerns itself with twelve Dublin streets and...
Book Review
The Kudzu Queen
by Karen Rigby
In Mimi Herman’s lush historical novel "The Kudzu Queen", a clever Southern teenager’s sense of justice inspires her to expose the truth about a magnetic newcomer. Mattie is fifteen and feeling eager for change when she and the rest...
Book Review
Have You Eaten Yet?
by Karen Rigby
The Chinese diaspora meets culinary ingenuity in "Have You Eaten Yet?", Cheuk Kwan’s robust food travelogue and social history of Chinese restaurants. Kwan, whose documentary Chinese Restaurants spanned five continents, revisits the...
Book Review
The Rose and the Thistle
by Karen Rigby
In Laura Frantz’s eloquent Georgian romance novel "The Rose and the Thistle", an English lady goes into exile during the Jacobite uprising and has a fateful encounter with a Scottish earl. Blythe, the duke of Northumbria’s only...
Book Review
The 30-Day Engagement
by Karen Rigby
A staged relationship blooms into love in Waverly Decker’s lighthearted LGBTQ+ romance novel "The 30-Day Engagement". Emory and Mari broke up eight years ago, so Emory is surprised when Mari, who works as an actress in Hollywood,...
Book Review
Georgie, All Along
by Karen Rigby
A freewheeling woman returns home in search of a fresh beginning in Kate Clayborn’s small-town romance novel "Georgie, All Along". Georgie, once a personal assistant in Los Angeles, heads back to her parents’ house. She’s used to...
Book Review
The Scarlet Circus
by Karen Rigby
In the fairy tales and poems of Jane Yolen’s "The Scarlet Circus", there are curious permutations of haunting, mesmerizing love stories. Featuring previously published stories alongside new work and personal commentary, this...
