It’s Tuesday, which means a new episode of What Should I Read Next! Today I’m talking with blogger and author Preston
Linking up with Emily Freeman to share 11 things I learned in June, from the serious to the shallow, the
Rerunning this from last year because I feel like this every time I finish putting together (and previewing books for)
In Monday’s Book Club 101 post, we talked about how a fabulous book club discussion starts with the right book—and it
The details on this ongoing project, and the factors I’m taking to heart. Readers told me 3 books they loved, 1 book they hated,
This month’s twitterature post is sponsored by HarperCollins Christian Publishing.  Welcome to twitterature, where we share short and sweet
From the publisher: “Is it possible to grow up while getting younger? Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere’s museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe’s psychiatric practice. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. And now that she’s dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn’t want with a grandmother she has only just met. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one?”
From the publisher: “Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy-ever-afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey’s mother disappeared. Now, in her early fifties, Bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor, and her marriage crumbles around her. With her troubled teenage daughter, Piper, in tow, she goes back to the beloved river house, where she is soon joined by Lainey and her two young children. During lazy summer days and magical nights, they reunite with bookshop owner Mimi, who is tangled with the past and its mysteries. As the three women cling to a fragile peace, buried secrets and long ago loves return like the tide.”
Booklist calls this “Another gem from the endlessly astonishing Penny.” The New York Times says “Ms. Penny’s books mix some classic elements of the police procedural with a deep-delving psychology, as well as a sorrowful sense of the precarious nature of human goodness, and the persistence of its opposite, even in rural Edens like Three Pines.”
Readers, each week for the past three and a half years I’ve talked to a reader (or sometimes two) and
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