Crossroads by Belva Plain
This contemporary comparative character study is fun to follow as readers will contrast Jewel with Gwen, and Stan with Jeff. Although Jewel is more of a caricature of the scheming gold-digger, Gwen a bit too introverted to carry the story line and the husbands two and half dimensional, the dynamic CROSSROADS relationships [...]
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Crossroads by Belva Plain - Review
The Bearskin Rug by Jennifer Stevenson - Review
The Bearskin Rug by Jennifer Stevenson
Early on, protagonist Jewel Heiss fondly looks back on a relationship she’d had at seventeen with the family’s septuagenarian lawyer. He said to her, The world runs on sex. There’s no life without sex. Make sure you have fun at it.
If you can read that and smile, the chances are [...]
“I FEEL A FOOT!” by Maranke Rinck and Martijn van der Linden - Review
I Feel a Foot! by Maranke Rinck and Martijn van der Linden
Maranke Rinck and Martijn van der Linden of the Netherlands offer a different approach to a similar topic in “I Feel a Foot!.” In an adaptation of an old Sufi tale (perhaps most familiar to American children from Ed Young’s 1993 Caldecott Honor title, [...]
