Story Circle Book Reviews

Historical fiction is one of my passions, whether it’s presented as a period drama on the big or small screen, the stage, or in book form. That’s why I looked forward to reading The Queen of the Platform, a fictional account of the life of suffragist and abolitionist […]

How do you decide what books to read? By favorite genre? The elevator pitch? the cover? I chose to read and review Beautiful & Terrible Things because it was outside of my usual choice of historical fiction, and I was ready to be challenged. It is a tale […]

The Causative Factor is wonderfully original in so many ways—the characters, their careers (a plumber and an artist who makes complicated boxes), the plot twists, the settings (western New York State and the borough of Queens in New York City). It’s a love story about different kinds of […]

Twenty years after a halcyon summer spent working in Yellowstone National Park as a young adult, Marcia Hensley is a divorced single mom, restless and wondering where her life is going. So she flies from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she has grown up in the Bible Belt and teaches […]

Marrying Friends is the latest collection of stories by award-winning author Mary Rechner. Unlike other short story collections that are thematically linked, Rechner has crafted this book with a progression of stories linked by a recurring cast of characters who float in and out of each tale just […]