Fans of Under The Tuscan Sun* by Frances Mayes will absolutely love her new fictional novel published last year. Reading Women in Sunlight is like taking a quick trip to Tuscany. The author treats us to…
Posts Published by Lynda Davis
Retired from corporate world and enjoying life as active baby boomer.
My days as a trophy wife could be over
My descent into ordinariness started with my manicure, or lack of it. Lockdown has made me extremely lazy. It’s an insidious process. Not having to get dressed for public appearances several times a week has…
American Dirt exposes timely and shocking insights into the plight of migrants
Jeanine Cummins, author of the best-selling novel American Dirt has been roundly criticized for writing a book about a politically sensitive subject she wasn’t born into. The cultural appropriation accusation is frequently hurled at authors and…
What do you do when your dryer is condemned to landfill?
LG Appliances has some ‘splainin’ to do. I can overlook the fact that the ice dispenser on my LG fridge always jams and the door to the ice storage bin tends to pop open at…
The Glass Hotel spins the Bernie Madoff story into some unputdownable fiction
This is one of those times I’m tempted to start my book review with a simple, “Wow! That was great!” I’m giving you the spoiler alert right upfront. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel is…
It’s Not All Downhill From Here . . . a great story about the value of female friendships
For some strange reason, when I downloaded It’s Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan, I thought the author was a male Canadian humour writer. Obviously I somehow got my wires crossed because Terry McMillan is,…