marthaengberAug 201 minMartha's List of Book Recommendation SitesWhere do you find your books? Mostly word of mouth, book award lists, book reviewers, publishers’ newsletters? A lot of book...
marthaengberMar 42 minBook Review: "Saving Face"by Effy Redman Effy Redman’s powerful, beautifully-written memoir took me into a world I hadn’t known and couldn’t have imagined until...
marthaengberOct 2, 20231 minTHE FALCON: 5 Stars on Goodreads and Amazon!Order NOW! This week is starting off most excellent with a review from reader Melissa Slayton! Martha Engber’s prose sings as she weaves...
marthaengberSep 11, 20232 minBook Review: "For You I Would Make an Exception"by Steven Belletto This a wild — and wildly compassionate — book about a youngish man who journeys to find the teen daughter he didn’t...
marthaengberAug 11, 20231 minBook Review: "A Hard Silence"by Melanie Brooks Silence as the result of shame and grief can brutalize a family. Such was the case for Melanie Brooks and her siblings...
marthaengberFeb 1, 20232 minBook Review: "Heart and Saltby Elaina Battista-Parsons I love books about girls becoming women. That’s the theme of Elaina Battista-Parson’s forthcoming short story...
marthaengberDec 21, 20221 minBook Review: "Dream Kids"by Michael Wayne Hampton I’m a sucker for gritty YA stories that show kids precariously straddling that fence between adolescence and...