Quickening

Happy to have had this smart and riveting read for a 2-day snowstorm, while socked in for the duration. This is a realistic portrait of a young woman's struggle to overcome adverse childhood effects with little support and guidance and find a path for herself in a sometimes loveless world. The story......more

I get a lot of my reading material from those little free libraries, and sometimes I wonder if they’re real books or if someone stuck their beloved self-published manuscript in there. This was one of those times. I had to keep flipping back to the spine to confirm that it really was published by a m......more

waiting I felt like I was waiting for an ah ha moment that didn't happen. I felt like Mandy never reached any sort of real understanding about who she was and where she was going...just stumbling from one situation to another.it was like reading a book that had the last chapter ripped out..no sense o......more

It's been a long time since I stayed up all night reading a book start to finish, but a combination of insomnia and a riveting writing style kept me up last night reading Laura Catherine Brown's Quickening, a former Ballantine Reader's Circle book that I once remembered getting a nice review in Peop......more