by Laura DeNooyer | Feb 4, 2025 | Book Reviews
I’M RUNNING A GIVEAWAY OF AMANDA’S BOOK—SEE BELOW. Novelist Amanda Wen has been a guest on this blog twice for two books in her Sedgewick County Chronicles series. Today I’m sharing book three: The Rhythm of Fractured Grace. I’m particularly grateful to Amanda...
by Laura DeNooyer | Oct 18, 2023 | Book Reviews
I appreciate authors who tackle difficult topics. Amanda Wen is one of those. In The Songs That Could Have Been, she takes on three issues: bulimia, alcoholism, and a mixed race romance. Each occurs in separate timelines of a split-time novel. A few facts about...
by Laura DeNooyer | Jun 14, 2022 | Book Reviews
Houses have a magical quality, especially if you grew up there. Or your parents or grandparents lived there. Always interested in genealogy, I’ve trekked around southeast Michigan looking up my parents’ and other ancestors’ homes in Stevensville, Sparta, Ionia,...
