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June 10, 2022

REVIEW: Overdue Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / librarian / Library / mental health / non-fiction / PTSD9 Comments

When Amanda Oliver began work as a school librarian, fueled by a lifelong love of books and a desire to help, she felt qualified for the job. What she learned was that librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-health-crisis support professionals, customer service reps and administrators of overdose ... more >

May 6, 2022

REVIEW: The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / domestic abuse / domestic violence / First-Person / forced sterilization / gender-based violence / Historical / Historical fiction / Kentucky / librarian / miscegenation / POC / poverty / racism / Young-Adult2 Comments

Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson is back with the perfect book club read following Honey Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman, who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free. In ... more >

August 1, 2019

REVIEW: The Whistle Stop Canteen by Barb Warner Deane

JayneBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsAmerican historical / epistolary / Historical / librarian / military hero / older heroine and hero / War / Military / Womens-Fiction / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: The Whistle Stop Canteen by Barb Warner Deane

A wartime train station encounter changes a lifetime… After losing her fiancé in WW1, Margaret Parker settled into a quiet, lonely life as the town librarian in North Platte, NE. After the US enters WW2, Margaret volunteers as the historian for the Servicemen’s Canteen organized by the women of North ... more >

July 19, 2019

REVIEW: All the World’s an Undead Stage by Angel Martinez

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / cats / LGBTQIA romance / LGBTQIAP+ / librarian / No Paranormal Left Behind / Offbeat Crimes Series / POC / police / policemen / Vampire4 Comments

Book six in the Offbeat Crimes series ‘Old actors never die’ shouldn’t be literally true. Carrington Loveless III, skim-blood vampire and senior officer of Philly’s paranormal police department, has long suspected that someone’s targeting his squad. The increasingly bizarre and dangerous entities invading their city can’t be a coincidence. So ... more >

May 9, 2019

REVIEW: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / American historical / First-Person / Historical / Kentucky / librarian / miscegenation / POC / racism / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy’s not only a book woman, however, she’s also the last of her kind, her skin a ... more >

April 17, 2019

REVIEW: American Dreamer (Dreamers #1) by Adriana Herrera

SiriusB- Reviews / Book ReviewsCaribbean / Chef / immigrants / librarian / m/m romance / POC / POC authorComments Off on REVIEW: American Dreamer (Dreamers #1) by Adriana Herrera

No one ever said big dreams come easy For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He’ll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn’t? He’ll have to give ... more >

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