The Lives of Troubled People Collide in Above the Rain Reading Víctor Del Árbol’s compelling novel, Above the Rain, is like taking a long, complicated journey where we are constantly [...] May 25, 2021
Poet’s Corner – The Studio Traveling through a full spectrum of colors in splashesA jumbled room yet in timely spacesEach part known to the artist.Brushes in coffee [...] May 23, 2021
The Heart Remembers – Love Can Conquer All The Heart Remembers is the final book in Jan-Philipp Sendker’s trilogy that began with The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, and continued with [...] May 18, 2021
Meeting in Positano – The Story of a Friendship Goliarda, who works for a film company, is in Positano, on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, to scout out locations for a future project. [...] May 11, 2021
In Kaira Rouda’s Novel, Three Women Fight for One Man with Deadly Results “It’s always best to be the original, to be the first. Not the next. Never the next.” Kate Nelson and her husband, John, built their [...] April 30, 2021
A Sunday Meeting, A Sister’s Secrets A younger sister (we never learn her name) who lives in Paris sets out to visit her older sister, Claire Marie, who lives in [...] April 27, 2021
The Paris Apartment – Secrets Hidden Within Walls to Thwart Nazis Kelly Bowen’s thrilling novel is fiction, but it’s based on true stories of woman who risked everything during World War II to save [...] April 20, 2021
On André Aciman’s Mariana – Along the Fault Line of Love’s Before and After When the Before and After of love are recognized, the revelation is seismic. They manifest in the After of “after the end.” They [...] April 19, 2021