The BookFetish Blog

Timmothy J. Holt’s Square Affair is not my normal type of read, but I decided to go a bit out of my comfort zone with this one. Set in a small Midwestern town in the 1960s, Square Affair explores the impact of a public indecency trial on the accused, their families, and the community as a whole. I found Square […]

Elyssa Friedland’s debut novel, Love and Miss Communication is one that can easily have you nodding your head in empathy or cringing slightly because of how all-to-familiar the characters seem. From the publisher’s summary: Evie Rosen has had enough. She’s tired of the partners at her law firm e-mailing her at all hours of the night. […]

Alison Jean Lester’s debut novel, Lillian on Life, shares Lillian’s reflections on her remarkable journey from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. Lillian reflects on all parts of life, the nuances that make it exciting and tragic; thrilling and soul-searing, usually against the backdrop of Lillian’s relationship with her family and her lovers. There were times […]

I Don’t Have a Happy Place. Well, I do. I have a happy place. But author Kim Korson doesn’t, as she shares with us in her poignant and funny and touching memoir, I Don’t Have A Happy Place.  I mean, where else can there be humor in the drowning of your best friend’s babysitter’s sister? Ok, […]

I do love reading and writing reviews. And although I’ve been doing this since 2010 (wow!) I still get a little thrill of flattery when an author or publisher asks me to review their work. There’s all kinds of things to consider with a review request.  First and foremost, for me, is stating clearly  in my […]