A Small Taste of the Weekend, Any Day of the Week
Rachel McMillan. Rose in Three Quarter Time. Amazon Digital Services, 2018. For anyone who may have missed it, Ms. McMillan has been regularly releasing a series of delightful novellas set in Europe. So far in the series, she has captured the historical and musical nature of several European cities, as well as developed a fascinating …
Kara Isaac. All Made Up. Bellbird Press, 2018. Ms. Isaac recently won a RITA award for her last self-published novel, Then There Was You. After reading and reviewing it last year, I firmly believe that it remains one of my favorite releases of 2017. With Ms. Isaac’s latest self-published book, I put in the extra …
Karen Witemeyer, Kristi Ann Hunter, Sarah Loudin Thomas, and Becky Wade. The Christmas Heirloom: Four Holiday Novellas through the Generations. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2018. When I first saw the listing of authors included in The Christmas Heirlooms collection, I pre-ordered it right away. Based on the enthusiasm from other readers and reviewers, apparently …
Mary Connealy. The Reluctant Warrior. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2018. If anyone spent yesterday eagerly anticipating the Books and Biscuits Blog’s review being posted, I apologize for the delay. It ended up being a perfect storm of strange happenstances throughout the day, topped off by a just-shy-of-a-severe electrical storm that could have easily …
Colleen Coble. Freedom’s Light. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2018. I’m always curious about authors’ early works and how they differ or remain surprisingly consistent with their later works. With this week’s book, I was fascinated to see the evolution of Colleen Coble’s writing throughout her career, with this novel being her first that she ever …