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Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

This one flew across my radar from a conference I attended. I’m not an overly talkative person but I also seem to cross the boundary...

Book review: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

I have read a couple of other Jodi Picoult books and decided she wasn’t really for me. She seemed a bit preachy, somehow. However, The...

Book review: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

4 out of 5 stars If you love mystery, suspense, odd children, large old houses, flashbacks and elderly women of an evil disposition, you...

Book review: Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

3 out of 5 stars There were so many sad stories and characters in this book that I can’t really say I loved it. I certainly wouldn’t...

Book review: Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

3 out of 5 stars A sad, dissatisfied wife and mother writes letters to her husband which are buried between the pages of the books in his...

Book review: The Choke by Sofie Laguna

My rating: 4 of 5 stars As the title suggests, this book tightens your throat with its raw poignancy of an innocent girl born into a...

Many stories are based on the same structure

Everyone loves a good story. Whether it’s a shaggy dog story over a campfire, a joke at a dinner party, a poem, a song, or a memoir, and...