WISH YOU WERE HERE by Jodi Picoult ~ A Book Review

This is the first novel I’ve ever read about the COVID-19 crisis, and in Jodi Picoult’s hands those now far-distant-almost-forgotten-bad-memories become real and vivid. Jodi Picoult does what every great author does ~ puts her characters into impossible situations to give the reader the pleasure of watching them escape. So we have two ambitious millennials […]
A Postcard from Lockdown on the Galápagos ~ or is it?

This is the first novel I’ve ever read about the COVID-19 crisis, and in Jodi Picoult’s hands those now far-distant-almost-forgotten-bad-memories become real and vivid. Jodi Picoult does what every great author does ~ puts her characters into impossible situations to give the reader the pleasure of watching them escape. So we have two ambitious millennials […]
How would you feel to be locked in a tiny room?

How different things are in June 2023, from the way they were in March 2020 when THE LOCKED ROOM is set. The author’s powerful writing enabled me to relive this perilous time when the whole world shut down, when millions of people across the world died, and when none of us felt safe going out. […]