Kathy’s Random Reads
I've been focusing my reading on the World War II era, since the novel I'm currently working on is set during that time....
Read MoreI've been focusing my reading on the World War II era, since the novel I'm currently working on is set during that time....
Read MoreI keep a log of character descriptions that make the novels I read come alive to me. Here are a few that I've...
Read MoreThe Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg This is a delightful book that is as much about blue-collar Southern culture as it...
Read MoreAVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE It’s 1913. Hattie Robinson has married the widowed Charles Barton and left teaching to raise Charles’s sons and manage the Barton...
Read MoreHattie’s Place is a story about a young Southern girl, Hattie Robinson, as she comes into womanhood and seeks to find her place...
Read MoreOrdinary Women/Extraordinary Acts Reading and writing stories about ordinary women who do extraordinary things is a favorite past time of mine, and the World...
Read MoreThe Cigar Factory by Michele Moore The Cigar Factory is the story of two devout Catholic families living in Charleston during the world wars....
Read MoreLove and War A love story, A Long Petal of the Sea, begins during the Spanish Civil War and spans a half-century and two...
Read MoreManhattan Beach is a novel of suspense, wrapped around a triangle of characters whose lives become extricably intertwined on a winter day in 1934,...
Read MoreFriendship by Mail Homefront Girls is the story of two American women brought together by a twist of fate, told entirely through their exchange...
Read More