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A Stopover in Venice, per its blurb, should have had everything I enjoy in a novel: a woman rediscovering herself as her marriage winds down; a sojourn in Venice, one of my favorite cities; and art and art history. It ended up being a mixed bag.
It was a difficult read because the usual visual clues that facilitate reading are missing. There are no scene...
The Seed Keeper is a multi-generational saga told from the points of view of four different women. The primary story is that of Rosalie Iron Wing, who is orphaned young and sent to foster care. There, she meets Gaby Makespeace, forming a friendship that lasts decades. The other voices are women from Rosalie’s past. Together these women tell the story of a band of Dak...
I enjoyed reading the first in Carol Potenza’s mystery series, String of Lies, and found I liked the second, Echo of Lies, just as much. Potenza writes of strong female protagonists who don’t need to be rescued—my kind of women.
The newest protagonist, Francie Cortez, lives alone on her family ranch after enduring a string of life-changing circumstanc...
Minor Black Figures is an interesting blend of politics, art, and LGBTQI issues. Wyeth, a young Black artist, was raised by a distant White mother and absent Black father. He worries constantly about how people perceive him and his art. He’s having trouble painting and can’t break out of that inability to produce. He’s working two part-time jobs as an art restorer an...
After her husband’s death, the protagonist of Brenda Barker’s Next Chapter, Brenda decides to write the book her spouse, Maynard, always disparaged. She married him, a rodeo cowboy turned construction worker, because he offered stability. Now, he’s dead, their only child and his Japanese wife are moving to Japan, and Brenda finds herself at a crossroads. She ta...