Dixie's Mom's Book Blog

Here's the thing. Anyone who knows me knows that I love Stephanie Plum. I love her quirky friends and her love of birthday cakes and her...

It is so nice to finish the year with an excellent book. Fortunately I decided to pick up Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock . I ...

I was fortunate to get this collection through an advanced reader program, and I am so glad that I was given the opportunity to review it.  ...

This is one of those books that I have had forever. I was drawn to it because I haven't really read any fiction based on the Berlin Wall...

Although I haven't been posting much this summer, I have had the chance to read some really good books. Of course, some have been less t...

I expected to like this book from the description, but I've read so many World War II books that I think it takes a lot for one to reall...

Dreams of Joy is the sequel to Lisa See's Shanghai Girls. It is the continuing story of Pearl, May, and their daughter, Joy. Having disc...

This is my first Erik Larson book so I won't compare it to The Devil in the White City, although I do want to go back and read that one ...

I wasn't sure if I really wanted to read a story about post-partum depression, mental illness, and the attempted murder of children (sou...

Oh, I wanted to love this book. It's the story of Li Jing who survives an explosion at a hotel in Shanghai, but suffers a head injury th...

I finally pulled this one off the shelf and I am wondering what took me so long.  I read The Samurai's Garden a while ago and loved it....

This was a book that I hadn't planned on reading. I haven't been in the mood for nonfiction and the idea of reading about biology ju...

Yay! Once I am done jumping up and down and hugging my book, this is what I'll be starting today.

I picked up Juliet because I saw five star review after five star review on Goodreads. I also saw Jamie Ford's glowing comments (author...

I am in the middle of Juliet by Anne Fortier. It's going slowly, but I am enjoying it. I just don't remember a book taking me so lon...

I was looking forward to this book because I really liked the author's debut novel, Before I Fall, but this was a disappointment. The st...

The book description for The Weird Sisters caught my attention immediately. It's about three grown sisters, Rosalind, Bianca, and Cordel...

Wow. I won't write a book description for this one because it's impossible to do it justice with a blurb.  Instead I will tell you w...

It seems that I am reading a lot of stories about near death experiences or after death experiences lately. There was also Before I Fall by ...

Thank you, Siobian! I appreciate it! Dixie will likely be jealous that I was called stylish before she was, haha! Okay, I am supposed to ...

Someone Else's Garden is about Mamta, the daughter of a cruel low-caste father who has arranged a horrific marriage to get rid of her. M...

One word of advice, don't look at too many book descriptions for this one before you pick it up. I read several, and although they didn...

     I just finished this one, and I am torn on what to say about it. The main character, Angel, is a baker who runs her own business from h...

I admit it, I picked up The Imperfectionists to see what all the hype was about. I can't resist reading something that makes multiple li...

I expected to be disappointed in this book, probably due to a review that I read at some point, but I wanted to read it regardless because I...

The Many Conditions of Love is the second book in Farahad Zama's Marriage Bureau for Rich People series. It looks like there is a third ...

I hope that everyone is starting off their new year well. My Toyota got crunched up this morning on my way to dropping my daughter at school...

What a beautifully subtle book this is! It is told from the point of view of an English butler who devotes every bit of himself to doing the...