If your requirement for a good book is that it ends happily, you will want to skip David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. However, if like me you savor good writing for the sake of good writing, great descriptions of the Wisconsin countryside in the 1970s, descriptions of its memorable characters, and beautiful, free-flowing writing, you won’t want to miss it. All of these things kept me reading and hoping to be in the end rewarded for my patience and dedication.

(Reviewed By Lee L. Peoples)

Set in America in the mid to late 1600s in the early days of slavery, A Mercy is Toni Morrison’s latest novel. It begins in medias res , a literary and artistic technique where the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning. The characters, setting, and conflict are introduced through a series of flashbacks or through characters. And so it is with A Mercy .

(Reviewed By Lee L. Peoples)

I am a voracious reader whose appetite for reading material spans the many genres. However, my favorite is fiction, escapist fiction. Lately I found myself wishing for more Harry Potter . . . but J. K. Rowling finished the series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and it was pointless to wish for more.

(By Lee L. Peoples)

William Paul Young’s best seller The Shack is a unique way of looking at the relationship between man and God. Mackenzie Phillips returns to the shack where three and a half years before his youngest daughter Missy was murdered by the man who had abducted her from their campsite.

How would you feel if you knew that the only reason you were conceived was as a donor for your sibling? For the entire thirteen years of her life, Anna Fitzgerald, the main character in Jodi Picoult’s best seller, My Sister’s Keeper , has been the main source of her older sister’s survival.

For generations, Peter Solomon, a 33 degree Mason, and his male ancestors—all of whom were Masons of the highest degree—have been entrusted with a secret that could literally change the world. Some years ago when this secret was threatened, he gave his friend and mentee Robert Langdon, the famous Harvard symbologist of past Dan Brown novels, a package for safekeeping. Now, Langdon has been tricked into bringing this package into the open.

There are so many good authors out there that some of my past favorites have been neglected, being the avid, voracious reader that I am.

Our perception and our reality are worlds apart when it comes to relationships today. Although our reality has drastically changed, our perception continues to remain the same.