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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 discoveryNo Comments

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 >

March 27, 2023

REVIEW: No Rings Attached by Mona Shroff

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsBaltimore / Chef / Contemporary / fake relationship / family relationships / Harlequin / Indian American / Once Upon a Wedding series / POC / POC author / second chance at love / self discovery / Wedding Planner2 Comments

No love. No commitment. No problem, right? Fleeing her own nuptials wasn’t part of wedding planner Sangeeta Parikh’s design for her life. Neither was stumbling into chef Sonny Pandya’s arms, nor the video that went viral. Now they’re an internet sensation! So why not fake the relationship with no commitment? ... more >

February 28, 2023

REVIEW: Silk and Stone by Dinah Dean

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads12th century / Anglo-Saxon / class differences / England / Historical / Historical fiction / medieval / needlework / Norman Conquest / religion / self discovery / stone mason2 Comments

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Sometimes the miracles you were praying for were there all along… Norman-born Elys de Wix fills her time with embroidery on the long pilgrimage to Rome to pray for healing of brother’s injury. She never thought much of it, until their new traveling companion, Saxon master-mason Aylwin, admires her skill. ... more >

February 15, 2023

REVIEW: All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArt / art history / brothers / Contemporary / death / Memoir / museum / New York City / non-fiction / self discovery4 Comments

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have ... more >

February 10, 2023

REVIEW: The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsfish-out-of-water / France / needlework / older woman / rural setting / self discovery / sisters / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life. A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in ... more >

January 11, 2023

REVIEW: There’s No Place Like Home by Jane Lovering

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsbrothers / Contemporary / England / First-Person / homeless / LGBTQIA characters / mothers and daughters / reality tv show / Reality-TV / self discovery / Yorkshire2 Comments

Isabel, Izzy to her friends, has got nothing left to lose when she makes the bravest decision of her life. A month living under canvas on the Yorkshire Moors with five strangers wouldn’t normally be her idea of a good time, even if there is prize money to be won ... more >

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