Jencey's Corner

HOW TO TELL TOLEDO FROM THE NIGHT SKY is a mind-bending, heart-shattering love story for dreamers and pragmatists alike, exploring the conflicts of fate and determinism, and asking how much of life is under our control and what is pre-ordained in the stars. Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, the nation's premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont, a dreamer and a man of deep faith, who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God, and speaks to ancient gods and believes they speak back. Its newest star is Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This would be a scientist's dream come true, but it's particularly poignant for Irene who has been in self-imposed exile from Toledo and her estranged alcoholic mother, ...

Thank you to Kathy Carmichael for a copy of Your Magic Touch .   The genre is romantic comedy.   This novel is also considered a novella. Synopsis:   What has Harrison done now?    Sinclair asks this very question as he sits down to dinner with his aunt and uncle.   They have a request.   Could Sinclair stay here at the mansion and babysit ghost hunters and a reporter?   Frannie is known for her humanitarian efforts.    She writes for a tabloid magazine the Spy.    She takes the assignment thinking she will only write about the mansion that she will visit and there is nothing more to it.   Or is there?   The ghost hunters are not your average ghost hunters. They are actually wizards with a mission.   This mission involves   both Frannie and Sinclair.   Will they be successful?   Are there truly ghosts in the mansion? My Thoughts:   I found this novel very easy to read.   The ...

The Curvy Girls Club released officially on June 17th.  Don't miss getting your copy.   Here are some thoughts by other authors about Michele's upcoming novel. A funny, heart-warming story about overcoming the prejudices we hold, no matter where we tip the scales. When the pounds start falling off Katie, founder and president of London’s most popular social club for the calorie-challenged, it seems like a dream come true. But as the overweight stigma recedes and her life starts to change, she faces losing more than the inches around her waist. Everything that’s important to her – her closest friends, boyfriend, and acceptance into the club itself – are at stake in a world where thin is the new fat. “So engaging and witty, yet insightful and empathetic.” Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author "A book about friendship, love and most of all, loving yourself; you'll eat this up." Catherine McKenzie , bestselling author of Sp...

I had the honor of meeting Dorothea Benton Frank at Barnes and Noble Buckhead in Atlanta Georgia.   She is currently on tour for the Hurricane Sisters, and shared with us a little about the story in her new novel.   She also assured us that it is very funny!   I very much enjoyed the last novel I read by her so I am sure that this one will be a treat.   One cause that is close to her heart is the domestic violence.   Dorothea was conducting a search one day on the internet.   There is a top ten list of states in the United States that are bad for handling domestic violence cases.   She found out that South Carolina leads the nation in being the worst for handling domestic abuse cases.   For each city that Dorothea visits on her tour for the Hurricane Sisters is being donated to shelters for women in domestic violence situations.   This novel will surely give a welcomed break to the reality of these women who go through on a...

We appreciate greatly the opportunity to Elizabeth Ball stop by and discuss what it means to be a writer.   How did she get started on the journey to becoming a writer? My daydream of writing full time, in my own little studio at the bottom of the garden, has not quite materialised- yet. Small details like proper paid full time work, having a family, shopping for food, getting stuff fixed that breaks just when you think you have a spare moment (my car door handle this month, came clean off in my hand meaning I now have to climb in the passenger side, quite a squeeze in my tiny car) usually get in the way, as well as the fact that we already have a brick outhouse at the bottom of the garden, and it’s my fiancées gym. Oh and talking of which, we’re getting married in four weeks’ time, an event that despite my usual haphazard organisation has been planned down to the last bead and is taking up any spare time I might have had with appointments to choose chocolate for favours a...

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme where I share what's new on Writer's Corner.  Also what is new that I will be reviewing in the future.  So onto the news of Writer's Corner.  There is still time to enter the giveaway sweepstakes for The Glass Kitchen which ends on June 30th.  I will be visiting Patti Callahan Henry this week.  I am crossing my fingers that I will be able to go see Jennifer Weiner. Here is what made the mail this week:  The Last Original Wife by Dorothea Benton Frank The Heist by Janet Evanovich Newport Dreams by Shelley Noble I am reading: