by Laura DeNooyer | Feb 8, 2022 | Book Reviews
Who really wants to read about other people’s messes? Sure, we like to live vicariously through fictional adventures and death-defying actions that overcome the bad guy. We identify with the flawed heroine who has enough gumption and integrity to still be...
by Laura DeNooyer | Feb 1, 2022 | Book Reviews
I’m guessing you know what it’s like to lose sleep when you can’t stop reading and you need to know what happens next to your hero or heroine. You can’t possibly wait till the next day to find out. Imagine waiting six weeks! When I first got the Kindle version of The...
by Laura DeNooyer | Jan 18, 2022 | Book Reviews
I’m thrilled to feature other authors and their novels on my Standout Stories blog. But today, please allow me the indulgence of sharing my own. Two months ago, I re-launched All That Is Hidden with a fresh cover and revised content—new and improved!...
by Laura DeNooyer | Jan 11, 2022 | Book Reviews
When I first picked up Under a Cloudless Sky, I thought it was about the 1920 miners’ massacre known as the Battle of Matewan, a shootout between local coal miners and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency in West Virginia. Ten men died as a result of this fight for...
by Laura DeNooyer | Jan 4, 2022 | Book Reviews
Will the real Mack Strum please stand up? While reading Chris Fabry’s A Piece of the Moon, I stumbled across this character Mack Strum, a country singer. The story’s setting is a country radio station in rural West Virginia. Waite Evers, the manager, recites...
by Laura DeNooyer | Dec 7, 2021 | Book Reviews
Like millions of others, I long ago fell in love with the book Christy by Catherine Marshall. I read it in middle school about five years after publication (1967). That was my first introduction to the Smoky Mountains, delving into 1912 southern Appalachia,...
