Jencey's Corner

Today I am sharing The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller.   She is a new author for me. I of course saw the pretty cover that screamed “Read me!”    Are you a fan of this author? Synopsis:   Meri is just beginning her married life in a new town.   Her husband Nathan will be a college professor at the local college.   They move in across the street from their neighbor Delia Naughton who is married to the ex-senator Tom Naughton.   Delia and Tom share a checkered past where choices were made and consequences resulted.   What are these consequences?   Meri wants to know as she carries out her pregnancy.   Both women make choices that will either encourage a relationship or destroy it.   What will the final result be? My Thoughts: What did I think of Sue Miller’s writing?   I thought it was okay.   I might read another of her books.   What I found most interesting in this book was the comparison made between the couples Meri and Nathan and Tom and Delia.   Who really had t

It's time to celebrate!   I want to formally invite you to raise a glass with me at the official book launch party for THE SUMMER’S END at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, SC on Monday, May 18 th at 6:30 p.m.   Invitation attached.   We want a proper launch for the end of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy! Imagine strolling through the Aquarium at leisure--delicious food, wine, live music and books--while getting exclusive access to all of the exhibits, including the brand new Shark Shallows , and having a chance to tour the sea turtle hospital.   We're also making a special, exciting announcement! If you’ve needed a good excuse to take a trip to Charleston (voted America’s #1 city four consecutive years in Conde Nast Magazine), this event is the perfect opportunity!   We've arranged for a limited number of hotel rooms to be available at the Isle of Palms and downtown Charleston at a group discount rate under the name “Mary Alice Monroe Book Party”.   We

Flowers of Grace, a novel inspired by a true story, is a heart-wrenching book club choice that one reviewer called “a tribute to love and friendship.” Set in an upscale St. Louis boutique amid a fragile economic climate when retail customers are trading brick and mortar stores for online shopping, Flowers of Grace is a story of love and loss, friendship and forgiveness. Still mourning a broken engagement, Grace inherits a hibiscus with a legacy she fears she will kill. Doubt in her capacity to nurture anything prompts her to bring the plant into the clothing store she manages, and the dynamic personalities of the female staff band together to help it bloom. Grace and the hibiscus blossom through a wedding and a birth, but its unexpected death pushes her to face false assumptions, opening a path for new love to appear. The simple gift is more than a plant. When it blooms, so does she.   But when it dies, she fears love will too. Author Bio: Teresa Hirst grew