Book reviewed by Lynn Leissler Eagle Point “Friday’s Daughter” by Patricia Sprinkle I used to think when someone mentioned the sins of the fathers being visited on future generations that some divine zap targeted innocent children on down the line. Now I believe those children are the unwitting heirs of […]

Welby O’Brien, Oregon writer Love our vets blog When we attempt a daunting task and huge undertaking, such as writing a book to help others, sometimes it is the miracles along the way that keep us going. One such miracle just happened! The day after I signed on with the […]

Sherry Meyer, Milwaukie writer Her blog, Found between the covers Book Review of “The House Behind the Cedars” by Charles W. Chesnutt Helping my husband locate a book on an adjacent library shelf, I saw this book and loved every page of “The House Behind the Cedars” by Charles W. […]

By Michal Ann McArthur, Bend Author of Choking on a Camel Her blog Book Review: “The Gift of Years” by Joan Chittister Genre: Self-Help/Spirituality For an attitude adjustment on aging, read Joan Chittister’s “The Gift of Years.” Before I read this book, aging was something I dreaded. I worried about […]

By Michelle Barnhart Reviewing the book, “Invisible Girls”, by Sarah Thebarge. The Invisible Girls is a double helix of a memoir, two stories spiraling around each other. One strand relates her struggle with breast cancer which she contracted in her 20’s, and the other narrates her relationship with a Somali […]

Audrey Sauble Lake Oswego check her blog Review of book “Oregon: Then & Now” Even the permanent changes sometimes—trees grow up, roads change, old buildings disappear and new ones take their places. Often, after the landscape changes, the old view vanishes completely. “Oregon: Then & Now” restores some of that […]