By Andrea Bobitis ** Publication date 9 July 2019 ** Miss Judith Kratt is a prim and proper spinster whose life is about to be turned upside down. Judith was born in Bound. Her father was the town’s most successful businessman. He made his money in cotton. As his business empire grew, he depended on his …
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner ** Publication Date 18 June 2019 ** Fleishman is a semi-happily married, forty-something, doctor in hepatology. Somehow being a doctor has fallen out of favor with the wealthy and elite in New York City. His wife, Rachel, is clearly not pleased with his vertical trajectory and feels the need to constantly remind …
By Richard Roper ** Publication Date 28 May 2019** Andrew works for the local council handling death. Not death as in the coroner’s way of handling, Andrew looks after those who have passed without family or friends to take care of them. Otherwise known as “public health passings.” Tasked with checking the deceased’s home for …
By Randy Susan Myers ** Publication Date 21 May 2019 ** There is an old Yiddish proverb, “You can never be too rich or too thin.” Well, maybe not a Yiddish proverb, but find me a Jewish mother of a certain era, and I guarantee her daughter will tell you she heard this at least …
By Robert Jacoby ** Publication Date 15 May 2019** Dusk and Ember tells the story of Richard Issych. A recent high school graduate who has no idea what he wants to do with his life. He is not one of the popular kids, or the jocks, or even the nerds. He is a kid who …
By L.D.Crichton ** Publication Date 7 May 2019 ** Kyler and Lennon are teenagers and broken. Kyler suffered severe burns to his face as a young child, disfiguring him for life. Lennon suffers from extreme OCD, and just lost her mom in a tragic drunk driving accident. Now Lennon has had to move to Los …
By Allie Larkin ** Publication Date 23 April 2019** Katie Ellis finds herself back in her hometown of Port St Lucie, Florida, after a messy breakup with her husband. She brings along the one possession she kept in the divorce, Bark, her shelter mutt that she cannot be without. Bark and Katie both suffer from …
by Barbara Stark-Nemon ***Publication date 18 September 2018*** Where some books almost feel difficult to read, Hard Cider is a joy. A book about a woman going through her mid-life change of direction (not a crisis at all.) Abbie Rose has made choices about the rest of her life that affect her husband …
By Sharon Myrick **Publication Date 14-August-2018** At first I wasn’t quite sure what to think of School Tales. It came across haltingly, as though it struggled to find a voice. Or perhaps too many voices. It felt like a manual for how to teach high school. But it definitely kept my attention and made me …
Bookwormish Me began as a school project to review books for my class in Modern Fiction. I started the site on Weebly (because I had a job interview and they wanted to see me actually build a free site using their application.) I had let the site go for a longgggggg while once I was …