Closing Time

Closing Time

[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Anita Paddock | Pen-L Publishing | 195 pages | $15 Most of us go to our jobs every day without a passing thought that evil might find us there. But in September 1980, two criminals walked into Staton’s...
The Home Place

The Home Place

[title subtitle=”review:Anita Paddock”][/title] The Home Place opens on a bitterly cold January night in Billings, Montana. There’s a party at a house on the wrong side of the tracks, and in that house is eleven-year-old Brittany, who’s...

Everything I Never Told You

[title subtitle=”review: Anita Paddock”][/title] by Celeste Ng Penguin Press, 292 pages: $2695 The title alone tells you this book is about secrets. And that immediately makes a reader curious. So when you take it from the shelf at the book store or the...
Some Luck

Some Luck

[title subtitle=”review: Anita Paddock”][/title] by Jane Smiley Alfred Knopf, Publisher, 395 pages:$2799 January is a good month to read Some Luck by Jane Smiley.  It’s a long book, which is just the right kind for winter days when staying inside seems...
Christmas Books for Under the Tree

Christmas Books for Under the Tree

[title subtitle=”reviews: Anita Paddock”][/title] I’m looking forward to Christmas more than I have in a long time. There is a little girl named Violet in my family, and her presence will make for a lively time around the tree. And as everyone knows, the...

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