Women’s Fiction

Seems to me like I could at least have posted a photo of the book cover, which is suffidiently artsy for the artist that the main character is! And here is a photo of the author, Alison Strobel.

Between Here and the PAST, THERE LIES A PLACE…a place of longing for what has been rather than hoping for what could be! Alison Strobel graduated with a degree in elementary education, and in the summer of 2000 she moved from Chicago to southern California where she taught elementary school for three years. It was…

This week’s fiction pick is Violette Between. My understanding is that this is the second book that Alison Strobel has had published. Her first book is called Worlds Collide. Violette Between is a uniquely written novel about love between a couple whose previous spouses have both died. The difficulty of letting go plays an important…

I finished reading Something That Lasts last night. I wasn’t planning to, but I really enjoyed it. It’s not a happy book, but I think it is quite realistic and has a bittersweet ending rather than a happily ever after. Well, maybe I shouldn’t have given that away! Yesterday afternoon I popped over to James…

Yesterday was a little bit like Christmas. A couple of boxes of books (6 books in all) found their way across the international border and into my hands. I couldn’t even remember what was supposed to be in them by this time! My system of getting books across the line, while entirely legal, does depend…

Some of the publishing houses apparently are reluctant to mail review copies of novels to non-USA addresses, and I guess I can understand their reserve. It definitely costs more, and it also takes considerably longer for them to arrive here. I had to do some international bargaining of my own to make sure my review…