The Book Cafe

An inspiring story for women looking to reclaim their power in the past or the future.

An unusual bookstore with an eccentric owner hunts for the answer to an ancient riddle. A nefarious cult protects a secret code. And a…

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black — A Good Reads Winner in 2022 for its subdivision of Fantasy Fiction

Coming-of-Age can be a horror story

A review of Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

“I see a home in the heart.” — Esperanza’s palm reader from HOMS by Sandra Cisneros

A review of TJ Klune’s 2021 novel

A review of Nita Prose’s 2022 novel and Goodreads Choice Awards winner

If the United States is an empire, we never meant to be.

Around and around, the Merry-go-round of Life in a Cantankerous, Cacophonous Castle

A review of Sara Nisha Adams’s 2021 debut novel

A 1960 Taylor Caldwell classic

Painted Baby - Book Review

Review of Legendary by Stephanie Garber

A review of one of my favorite books of all time

A review of Wind Whispers, Shadow Shouts by Sharon Green

Over 2000 5-star reviews should tell you something!

It’s time to step into your power.

Corrie Ten Boom tells her story about saving an estimated 800 Jews, and being an important player in the Dutch underground trying to save…

Did they meet my expectations?

I despised books, once.

Is the series doing the book justice?

Review of The Guest List by Lucy Foley

“You are not required to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.” Rabbi Tarphon