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A Woman of Intelligence
A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe Simon and Schuster Australia Katharina Edgeworth was once a translator at the United Nations. She loved her life and then she fell in love with Tom Edgeworth, a pediatric doctor from a well-to-do family. They eventually married and when she had her first child she stopped working and became what would today be called a stay-at-home mother. Her life appeared to be just about perfect but the reality was anything but that. Her husband was almost never, home, more married to his work than to her. Meanwhile, she has lost herself to motherhood. As much as she loves her children, it’s not complete.…
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Dark Apprentice: Fall of Magic Book One
Nikolai is a young wizard with high aspirations. He wishes to achieve immortality and become a grandmaster of dark magic. But he’s currently apprenticed to a mage who hasn’t been quite satisfactory and he is stuck in a town where dark magic is banned. He’s desperate to learn from Medea, an immortal mage with a reputation of killing all her apprentices and he goes to great lengths to manipulate her into accepting him. He gets what he wants but he’s still not happy and spends all his time working out ways to avoid doing the work she asks of him. He also becomes chronically unwell and thinks it’s all the…
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Ramona the Pest
I never went to kindergarten and I don’t recall books from my life before I went to school. So my reading adventures started in first grade where I picked it up quickly and was always on the search for more books to read. I was a regular at my school library and I think I spent a bit of time at the city library too. It wasn’t long before I was reading chapter books, and one of the writers I remember most from that time is Beverly Cleary. I read many of her books and the one that stands out in my mind is Ramona, the Pest. I had a…