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March 27, 2024

REVIEW: Matzah Ball Blues (Holidays, Heart and Chutzpah Book 2) by Jennifer Wilck

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / family relationships / Harlequin / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Passover / second chance at love / slow burn2 Comments

Why is this night different from all other nights? For starters, Jared Leiman is home for the holidays. Because though he and Caroline Weiss were high school sweethearts, their postcollege lives took them in different directions. Jared became a big-time entertainment lawyer in LA, while Caroline became a fitness instructor ... more >

April 10, 2023

REVIEW: Two Nights to Forever (Orchard Hill Book 2) by Rebecca Crowley

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsadoption / businessman / businesswoman / Contemporary / family relationships / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Missouri / mothers and daughters / Orchard Hill series / Passover / self discoveryComments Off on REVIEW: Two Nights to Forever (Orchard Hill Book 2) by Rebecca Crowley

Time doesn’t heal all wounds, but love just might… Eve Klein almost has it all: a thriving career, great friends, and adoptive parents who’ve supported her in everything—including her quest to find her birth mother. She’s hired a private investigator, and while she waits for the last piece of her ... more >

November 9, 2022

CONVERSATION: Holiday Romances

JanineBook Reviews / Conversations / Need A Rec!Christmas / Diwali / Easter / Halloween / Hanukkah / holiday novella / holiday romance / holiday setting / Juneteenth / Kwanzaa / Passover / Ramadan / recommendations / Rosh Hashanah / Valentine's Day / winter / Yom Kippur18 Comments

Janine: ‘Tis the season for books set during the winter holidays, and I’d love to know your thoughts on the holiday settings in romances and in other books. Generally speaking, do books set during the holidays draw you? What do you like least and/or best about them? Which holidays do ... more >

April 14, 2022

REVIEW: The Village Feasts: Stories of Food and Laughter (The Village Life) by Izzy Abrahmson

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsEastern Europe / Historical / Holiday / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Passover / short stories / slice of village lifeComments Off on REVIEW: The Village Feasts: Stories of Food and Laughter (The Village Life) by Izzy Abrahmson

Delicious Passovers in The Village Life in The Village often revolves around food and families. THE VILLAGE FEASTS is the follow-up collection to WINTER BLESSINGS by National Jewish Book Award For Family Literature nominee Izzy Abrahmson. Rich with misadventures and ingenious solutions, the stories dance with a traditional feel around ... more >

March 16, 2020

REVIEW: Welcoming Elijah by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Susan Gal

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscats / children's fiction / childrens-books / holiday setting / Jewish-faith / Passover / picture booksComments Off on REVIEW: Welcoming Elijah by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Susan Gal

Celebrated author Lesléa Newman unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship. Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner table to embrace the many traditions of their Passover Seder around the dinner table. Outside, a cat wonders, ... more >

March 16, 2020

REVIEW: Matzah Ball Surprise by Laura Brown

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / deafness / disabled character / fake relationship / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Passover4 Comments

This Passover is starting to feel like the ten plagues might be coming back to haunt them before the weekend is over…one hilarious misstep after the next. Gaby Fineberg just wants to get through Passover Seder without her “well meaning” family playing matchmaker. She needs a date, just for one ... more >

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