Tag Archives: historical fiction

Jazzed Journey

“Morris’s first novel since 2004 puts her many gifts to use in a story of creativity, music, resilience, and love in Prohibition-era Chicago.” Publishers Weekly review of The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris The Jazz Palace is garnering rave reviews … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Fat Books

OK, I confess! I’m supposed to be poring over Dubliners by James Joyce for my reading group, which is getting together — egad! — in less than a week. But instead, I’ve been slowly plowing through that door stopper of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Slow Start

“He has that gift – the first and most important in a novelist – of creating for the reader a world as real as the one in which he lives, a world which the reader enters on the first page … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment