
Xmas dinner in Vermont...

This was my first Nora Roberts and…will probably be my only Nora Roberts.
A stolen identity, a murder, an obsessed killer and a budding romance seem like the ingredients for a perfect detective thriller. But this one was just too unbelievable both procedurally and in its character development.
#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

Midwifery fascinates me, especially in older historical periods. I‘m also a fan of the series Call the Midwife. This book is slow burn but written very well. On an impossible winter night in Vermont, conditions are set that just happen to align for an unknowingly risky home birth. When the town midwife makes the best decision she knows, her life turns upside down. Here is a modern story of an old patriarchal ploy: controlling women‘s bodies.

Holiday shopping today? Well, if you want to give someone one of my novels with a personal inscription, simply visit in-person or online or call the Vermont Book Shop (802 388-2061) in Middlebury, VT or Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT (802 448-3350). They ship and my penmanship is fantastic. Thanks, friends!

This really lovely book is by a woman who has been a shepherdess for over 20 years focusing on pastoralism in Vermont. It‘s meditative and delves into her deep connection with the land. It reminds me totally of Raising Hare. I loved it.
#NBAlonglist, nonfiction

Diana Brewer isn‘t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer.
How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.
Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers