Alabama 1970s. When Nub Taylor decides to initiate a drunken car chase in Park (temporarily renamed Papk), Alabama, he ends up in the hospital next to 15-year-old Minnie Bass, who has just lost her mother due to suicide. Theirs is an unlikely friendship, for Nub can’t even stay sober long enough to have a relationship with his actual daughter, Emily, who has just received a terminal cancer diagnosis. In a series of events that can only happen in a small town, Nub applies to be Minnie’s foster parent. But there are secrets that are about to be revealed that will change everyone forever.
I started this at night and finished it the next morning. I loved it so much that I gave it ten stars, even though my rating system is based on five stars. Because it was just that good, and I felt like breaking my own rules. This is an amazing story of love, forgiveness, redemption, and second chances. The Southern small-town cast of characters–good, bad, and judgmental–is a delight. Throw in bullies, organized crime, and a mysterious protector, and this is a book you won’t want to put down. I laughed and sobbed. That’s how good this was. I want to read everything this author has ever written. Apparently Sean Dietrich has written 31 books, so I have 30 to go.
If you love Southern Fiction, read this! If you love Small Town fiction, read this. If you love redemptive stories about found family, read this! If you want to laugh and cry, read this. Read it. You won’t be disappointed. I loved it so much I’ve already preordered the audiobook.
I received a free copy of this book from Harper Muse via Netgalley. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.
Kinfolk will be released on November 14, 2023.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (FROM HIS WEBSITE)
Sean Dietrich is a columnist, novelist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader’s Digest, Garden and Gun, The Tallahassee Democrat, the Birmingham News, and The Mobile Press Register. His column appears in newspapers throughout the U.S. He has authored fifteen books and is the creator of the Sean of the South Podcast. He also makes appearances on the Grand Ole Opry.
I’m going to do something different since I’m trying to catch up after work, travel, and other commitments put me behind. Here are three one-line reviews. If you click on the cover, it will take you to the Amazon link. Enjoy.
This mashup of fantasy and alternate history brings so much magic and action to the story that the reader will not be able to breathe, much less stop reading.
This is a heartwarming story that is a good comfort read as Cleo, the 50ish owner of a bakery, starts really living her life after divorce.
Barbara Jenkins shares the real story behind the famous walk across America she took with her former husband, Peter, and the unvarnished truth is a lot more interesting than the media portrayal.
I received all three of these books from the publishers via Netgalley. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.
Indie Weekend is my effort to help Indie Authors with marketing. Marketing is probably the biggest task authors have, and if I can help even a little, I’m happy to do it. You can help too by sharing this far and wide with your social media followers. Below please see my review of Growing A Top-Notch Family Tree: With Stories From Its Branches by Nancy Blodgett Klein.
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM AMAZON)
This two-part book gives advice to genealogists about specific steps to take to grow a great family tree online, with details about what to do and what to avoid to have the best possible tree for current family, future generations and the wider community to enjoy. It includes details about three different online sites, Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage. It also discusses the importance of DNA testing and DNA matching with relatives to help you verify your findings.
The second half of the book shares interesting stories about family tree members, including famous ones like Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins, colorful characters from the Stewart/Stuart family of Scotland, and “troublesome” women relatives like Elizabeth Woodville of England, Elizabeth Hutchinson, from Massachusetts, and fancy dresser Thomasine Boyes, a British immigrant to Massachusetts and wife of Rev. Francis Johnson, a popular Puritan minister.
This book is designed to be both educational and entertaining for anyone interested in genealogy, be they new to the subject or an experienced master.
BOOK REVIEW
This is a fantastic resource by Nancy Blodgett Klein for anyone who wants to explore their ancestry, especially if you use Ancestry.com and other online resources. I have used Ancestry.com for years, but I learned so much from this book that is going to enhance my experience there. Nancy points out many mistakes and pitfalls that I recognized at once as things I have done, and she shares tips and tricks that I never discovered on my own that I am now eager to try out.
While sharing the best ways to use online resources, Nancy also shares fascinating stories from her own family history, which includes many famous people, and tells you the best ways to discover your own stories. The addition of DNA to ancestral research is also explored, and Nancy tells us the best way to use that DNA to discover hidden secrets.
Whether you are new to genealogy or have been doing research for years, this book will inspire and help you along the way.
I downloaded a copy of this book on Kindle Unlimited, where subscribers can read it for free.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (IN HER OWN WORDS)
Nancy Blodgett Klein
My latest book is Growing a Top-Notch Family Tree: With Stories from its Branches. Published in 2023, this is a non-fiction work for lovers of genealogy. Torn Between Worlds was my first novel while Life Lessons was my first non-fiction work. Both were published in 2021. In 2022, I published What’s So Special About Spain, a travel book for children. I worked as a journalist for 15 years in Chicagoland, starting out as a police reporter in Chicago. I also worked for the American Bar Association Journal, writing hundreds of articles on political, social and legal topics. Later on I was a public school teacher, including to many students from Mexico. I now live in Spain.
I received a bachelor’s from Tulane University in philosophy and a master’s in journalism from Boston University. Later, I earned a master’s in education from Roosevelt University. I am a member of two book groups and one writers group.
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Kerry and her brother Murphy head to New York City during the holiday season in order to sell Christmas trees from their family’s farm. While there, they are staying together in a tiny trailer by their Christmas tree lot. Kerry is between jobs and uncertain about her future, but new friends and new opportunities are just around the corner.
This is a wonderful holiday tale about making friends and letting others help you. The characters are all endearing in their own way, even the grumpy Heinz. Kerry’s romance with Patrick is a nice touch, but Patrick’s son Austin steals the show. The broken-down trailer the siblings are staying in has a name–Spammy–and it is almost a character of its own. Their older friend, the irritable and closed-off Heinz, has a lot of secrets to tell, and his story is revealed in a heart-touching way. There are also hints of sabotage as someone is trying to keep Kerry and Murphy from selling their trees. The reader is immediately transported to New York City during the Christmas season, and the Christmas spirit is evident throughout the book. This is a fun and joyful holiday read.
Kathleen McInerney does a great job portraying all of the characters in the audiobook version.
I received a free copy of this audiobook from MacMillan Audio via Netgalley. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.
MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels (including The Homewreckers; The Santa Suit; The Newcomer; Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach;The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Ladies’ Night; Christmas Bliss; Spring Fever; Summer Rental;The Fixer Upper; Deep Dish; Blue Christmas; Savannah Breeze; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.
A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.
She and her family divide their time between Atlanta and Tybee Island, GA, where they cook up new recipes in three restored beach homes. Mary Kay is also an intrepid treasure hunter whose favorite pastime is junking and fixing up old houses.
After the death of his grandfather, Noah’s life is thrown into chaos as he faces a repressed past that threatens everything he believes to be true. In the course of trying to come to terms with his loss, Noah must also navigate a difficult relationship with his sister, Kelly, as they reflect on their turbulent childhood – when they were taken from London to live in the Kent countryside following the breakdown of their parents’ marriage.
Set between the 1970s and the more recent past, Adventures About To Begin chronicles a collapsing marriage as experienced by its children and reflects on how memory shapes our decisions at crucial junctures during our lives.
It is both funny and touching, as well as a sensitive insight into British family life during a period of great social and cultural change.
BOOK REVIEW
Adventures About to Begin starts off on a humorous note and is funny, alarming, and incredibly sad at times. The time period changes from 2005 to 1976 as Noah deals with the death of his grandfather and remembers the breakup of his parents’ marriage. The differences with which members of the same dysfunctional family deal with difficult times are well portrayed. This book is very, very British, but there is a wonderful appendix in the back (Noah’s cultural appendix) that provides definitions and references for Americans like me. The mingled tones throughout of humor, irony, and sadness were very well done. Warnings: Racism and abuse.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aside from writing fiction, Allen Therisa also writes for blogs on everything from popular culture to politics, outside of his working life in the world of social media and website design. Adventures About To Begin is his debut novel.
A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward.
When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one’s more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distant beachside town.
On the surface, Maggie Mae Brightwell is a bundle of energy as she runs Magpie’s, Driftwood’s coffee and curiosity shop, where there’s magic to be found in pairing the old with the new. But lurking under her cheerful exterior is a painful truth—keeping busy is the best way to distract herself from the lingering loss of her mama and her worries about her aging father. No one knows better than she does that you can’t pour from an empty cup, but holding on to the past is the only thing keeping the hope alive that her mama will return home one day.
Ava and Maggie soon find they’re kindred spirits, as they’re both haunted—not by spirits, but by regret. They must learn to let go of the past to move on—because sometimes the waves of change bring you to the place where you most belong.
Maggie is the heart and soul of Magpie’s Coffee and Curiosity Shop. The shop had belonged to her mother, who was caught in a riptide, disappeared years ago, and is presumed dead by everyone but Maggie. Although her father has been talking about selling the shop lately, Maggie is determined to hold on to Magpie’s, which she still considers her mother’s shop. Maggie also has concerns about her father’s strange behavior lately and is thinking about hiring an aide to live with him. She creates and then discards an ad for someone to care for a cantankerous old man. When Ava receives a strange letter and a crumpled advertisement for a job as an aide to an older man in Driftwood, Alabama, she decides this is the perfect fresh start after the death of her ex-boyfriend. Ava closely guards two secrets. She had epilepsy as a child, and she developed some extrasensory abilities after her last grand mal seizure.
I loved every bit of this book, from the coffee shop, to the town, to the quirky characters. Driftwood is a typical small town where everyone is in everyone else’s business, but it also has some very unique residents. Estrelle, who always dresses in black, might just predict your future or give you bad breath if she chooses. Maggie has a gift for picking out the perfect “curiosity” for friends and customers, and the newcomer Ava’s gifts are special indeed. In addition to gifts, the town holds many secrets, and so much love that the reader will feel pulled right in. There is romance in every corner, but the themes of loss, trusting others, and moving forward shine through. I hope there will be a sequel, because this town already has a place in my heart.
The narration of the audiobook was very well done by Hallie Ricardo and Stephanie Willis, who perfectly captured both the characters and magic of this small town.
I received a free copy of this audiobook via Macmillan Audio. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Heather Webber, aka Heather Blake, is the author of more than twenty-five novels. She loves to read, drink too much coffee and tea, birdwatch, crochet, and bake. She currently lives near Cincinnati, Ohio, and is hard at work on her next book.
Originally from Bloomfield, New Jersey, Hallie was introduced to the performing arts by her Broadway performer parents. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Southern California’s School of Theatre in Los Angeles and now works as a professional film and television actress and audiobook narrator. She has narrated over 100 titles over the past five years across various genres, including bestselling series Ivy+Bean and most recently the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award winning series Beak and Ally. Hallie is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and is unabashedly obsessed with her two cats, Vinny and Josie.
Stephanie Willis is a professional actress, instructor, and voice-over artist. She is a graduate of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta and has taught with Georgia Shakespeare and several other performing arts schools. She also records narration for videos and audiobooks.
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won’t be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with her siblings, who are both busy with their own problems. Her brother, a single dad, struggles with the ongoing effects of a brain injury he sustained years ago, and her sister’s fragile facade of calm and order is cracking under the burden of big secrets. Life becomes even more complicated when the cop who put her in prison keeps showing up unannounced, leaving Tara to wonder what he wants from her now.
While she works to build a new career and hold her family together, Tara finds a chance at love in a most unlikely place. But when the Connellys’ secrets start to unravel and threaten her future, they all must face their worst fears and come clean, or risk losing each other forever.
The Connellys of County Down is a moving novel about testing the bounds of love and loyalty. It explores the possibility of beginning our lives anew, and reveals the pitfalls of shielding each other from the bitter truth.
BOOK REVIEW
The Connellys of County Down is a riveting combination of family drama and romance that deals with making mistakes, starting over, and judging others. It’s also about a family that is worn down from hard times, but still tries to help each other. It’s a heartwarming novel.
Issues that some of the characters deal with are control, keeping secrets, prison sentences, and hoarding. The romance is a nice touch that does not overtake the main themes of the book. The relationships between the siblings are very realistic and show their ups and downs. They are far from a perfect family, and that makes the book better.
The audiobook was narrated by Barrie Kreinik, who expertly conveyed all of the personalities, emotions, trials, and fears of the characters. I was riveted by the performance.
My rating is 4.5 stars, rounded up to five on sites with no half-star option.
I received a free copy of this audiobook from MacMillan Audio. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tracey Lange was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in psychology before owning and operating a behavioral healthcare company with her husband for fifteen years. While writing her debut novel, We Are the Brennans, she completed the Stanford University online novel writing program. She currently lives in Bend, Oregon with her husband, two sons, and beloved German Shepherd.
Barrie Kreinik is an actor, singer, writer, and audiobook narrator based in New York City. She was nominated for a 2023 Audie Award for her narration of A House Full of Windsorby Kristin Contino.
On January 29th, Barrie performed in the first public reading of Dublin Noirby Honor Molloy as part of Origin Theatre Company’s 2023 1st Irish Festival.
Barrie’s narration of Michelle Hart’s debut novel We Do What We Do in the Dark was named one of the Best Audiobooks of 2022 by the New York Times.
Summer Wilde is a wannabe country music star. But when her latest girl band abandons her in a motel outside Tulsa, she is forced to face the shadows of her past.
Twenty years ago, the summer of ’77 was supposed to be the best summer of her life. She and her best friends, Spring, Autumn, and Snow—the Four Seasons, 4ever—had big plans.
But those plans never had a chance. After a teenage prank gone awry, the Seasons found themselves on a bus to Tumbleweed, “Nowhere,” Oklahoma, to spend eight weeks as camp counselors. Arriving with hidden secrets and buried fears, those two months changed their friendships and the course of their lives.
Now, thirty-something and with no direction for her future, Summer is at a crossroads. Returning to the place where everything changed, she soon learns Tumbleweed is more than a town she left and never wanted to see again. It’s the place for healing, for reconciling the past with the present, and for finally listening to love’s voice. Celebrating the songs of our hearts, the joys of love, and the threads of friendship that tie us all together, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck’s radiant story perfectly captures all the romance, heartache, and hope of the best summer ever.
BOOK REVIEW
Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Snow–the Four Seasons–are headed off to be camp counselors during the summer of 77, a summer that will change their lives forever. They have no idea that hidden anger, wreckless choices, and long-kept secrets will combine to try and tear them apart. Twenty years later, in 1997, Summer is a struggling singer, still trying to make it big in music. She makes commitments to no one, especially Spring, Autumn, and Snow, who she left behind years ago.
This is a wonderful coming-of-age story with explosive hidden secrets that will keep the reader riveted to the page. The characters are easy to connect with, and The Four Seasons are a special group. All of the relationships in this book are complex and nuanced, and the author brings in real-life tragic events–the murder of three girls at Camp Scott, Oklahoma, in 1977, and the Ted Bundy murders at Florida State in 1978. There’s a special character named “The Preacher” who brings a spiritual level to the story in almost a paranormal way.
With a compelling plot and memorable characters, this story will touch your heart.
I received a free copy of this book from Bethany House via Netgalley. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Hauck is the NY Times, USA Today, & Wallstreet Journal bestselling author of over thirty novels. She lives and writes from sunny central Forida with her pastor husband.
Indie Weekend is my effort to help Indie Authors with marketing. Indie authors have to do it all, and if I can help spread the word even a little bit, I’m happy to do it. You can help too by sharing this book far and wide. Below see a book review and Q&A with Darlene Foster.
BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM AMAZON)
A collection of short stories inspired by growing up on a prairie farm in the fifties and sixties. Some of the stories are humorous and others sad, but all heartfelt. Stories about family life, cowboy wisdom, immigrant grandmothers, an inspiring teacher, and the arrival of a new sibling are part of this collection of tales from another time and another place. Proof that you can take the girl from the prairie but you can’t take the prairie from the girl.
BOOK REVIEW
This is a wonderful collection of stories from Darlene Foster about growing up on the Canadian Prairie in the 1950s and 1960s. Every story is a well-written look at the past and the hard-working life of farmers. There is also a bit of history of emigration to the Canadian prairie.
My favorite story is probably Bambi at Home, about an antelope who was adopted by Darlene’s family as a baby, and the bond they all shared. Darlene’s tributes to the life and character of her parents and grandparents are heartfelt and touching. Each story lays out the life of a hard-working family, but underscores their devotion to each other. Good Hands, a loving tribute to Foster’s father, is another favorite because it shows the hard daily tasks of a farmer while also underscoring her father’s happy and loving personality. Every story chronicles life on the prairie and the enduring bond of a family.
This is a quick read, but a memorable one, and the love and care with which it is written shines through. Highly recommend.
Q&A WITH DARLENE FOSTER
I’m happy to do another Q&A with Darlene Foster, this time about her book “You Can Take The Girl From the Prairie,” about growing up on the Canadian prairie. Welcome back, Darlene!
Bonnie: In these Q&As, I always ask the author to go beyond the bio and tell us something we might not know about you from reading your bio. You have answered this question before in a previous Q&A. Is there anything else about you that we might not know from reading your bio?
Darlene: I’m quite good at eavesdropping and often use that skill to collect material for stories. As a result of growing up within a large extended family where everyone spoke at once, I can listen to a number of conversations at one time, which comes in handy. I’m also quite observant and notice little things like what people are wearing, their mannerisms etc. This is useful as a writer. I’m also good at making up things, which is great as a writer but can also get me in trouble at times.
Bonnie: It was interesting to read about your German Canadian heritage and see a recipe. Do you have any other German traditions you still follow or recipes you still use? Did any of your family speak German?
Darlene: My parents spoke German at home and I could speak German as a little girl, before I learned English. I still use some German words occasionally but I’m not fluent. We ate a lot of German and Eastern European food growing up. Mom’s perogies were delicious and I often crave them. I can make them, but they are never as good as hers. I have some of my great-grandmothers’ recipes that were passed down to my grandmother and mother. I also have an old Bible written in German that was most likely brought over to Canada when they immigrated.
Bonnie: The winter weather sounds particularly cold and snowy. What about the spring and summer weather? What was your summer weather challenge growing up on the Canadian prairie?
Darlene: Winters were often severe with temperatures as low as -40 degrees (Celsius) but the summers could get very hot and dry reaching +40 degrees (Celsius). Dad was always worried about prairie fires and he lost his crops to drought on more than one occasion. The hot summers brought out the grasshoppers which were annoying.
Bonnie: In one story, you refused to speak to your mother when you were a teen because she was going to have another baby. Did you ever look back on that and laugh when you became a Mom?
Darlene: Years later mom and I often laughed about that. When I became a mom, I soon realized how difficult teenagers could be. But like my mom and I were, my daughter and I are now best friends.
Bonnie: My favorite story was probably of Bambi, the adopted antelope, and her life that was split between the farm and the wild. I was wondering how long Bambi lived?
Darlene: I’m not sure, but she would have lived for at least six years, possibly more.
Bonnie: I looked up immigration to Canada in the early 20th Century, and there was a huge wave of settlers immigrating to the Canadian prairies between 1897 and 1929. Was there a land act similar to the Homestead Act in the United States in the 19th Century?
Darlene: Yes there was. In Canada it was called the Dominon Lands Act and was similar to the Homestead Act in the US. The Act gave a claimant 160 acres of land for free, the only cost to being a $10 administration fee. Any farmer who was at least 21 years of age and agreed to cultivate at least 40 acres of the land and build a permanent dwelling on it (within three years) qualified. This act helped to populate the Prairie Provinces.
Bonnie: What was your favorite story in the book?
Darlene: Probably the story about when mom brought my second brother, baby Timothy, home. It is such a special memory.
Bonnie: Thanks again, Darlene for answering my questions! I really enjoyed the book.
Darlene: I am so pleased you enjoyed these stories, Bonnie. Thanks for having me as a guest on your wonderful blogsite once again.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION (AMAZON)
In 1998, the American Jorgenson family had been on a year-long road trip in Australia. On a humid, storming night, the mother – Elsa Jorgenson – vanished in an isolated stretch of Australian everglades. Elsa was never seen again.
That night, twelve-year-old Lily Jorgenson was left alone and terrified in the family camper—even her teenage sister Iris is missing. When Iris comes racing back through the rain, she refuses to tell where she’s been. Lily is certain her sister is hiding a dark secret.
24-years later, Lily is a travel writer living a settled life with her son in Pennsylvania, USA. Lily and Iris are estranged, with Iris’s secret having torn them apart. When floods dredge up their mother’s backpack from the everglades, tantalising clues are uncovered, and the police reactivate the cold case.
Lily returns to Australia, determined to force Iris to finally tell her secret – and to do that, she’ll have to reunite with her. But when Lily unlocks the gut-wrenching events of the past, everything she thought was true about her family is about to shatter.
BOOK REVIEW
In 1998, Elsa Jorgenson suddenly disappears during a road trip with her daughters, Lily and Iris, in Australia. Iris also vanishes briefly, but returns, and the girls begin a tumultuous journey without their mother, who has completely vanished. Twenty-four years later, Lily returns to Australia, determined to get answers. She will start with her estranged sister, Iris, for Lily is convinced Iris is keeping secrets.
Birds in Flight is a compelling and nuanced mystery that will keep you guessing. The secrets and revelations are riveting. Among the serious issues discussed are mental health, depression, abuse, abandonment, and cult-like behavior. This book is so richly layered, and as each layer is lifted, more of an absolutely intriguing mystery is revealed. It’s a dynamic story of family secrets and the quest to finally solve them. It’s also a road trip book in more ways than one, as Lily and Iris retrace their mother’s footsteps and learn her life story.
I had a hard time putting this mystery/adventure down, and the conclusion is clever, heartbreaking, and unexpected. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a complex mystery that explores family dynamics. This is a story you won’t soon forget.
I also listened to the audiobook, and the narrator, Harriet Gordon-Anderson, was phenomenal. She was able to voice different characters and accents with ease. And her ability to truly make the characters who were talking on the phone actually sound that way was astonishing.
Five stars for the story. Five stars for the narration.
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