Jennifer Frost Writes
“We write to create the books that we would like to read, that haven’t yet been written—possibly.”—Joyce Carol Oates
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Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass
by Jennifer Frost
Vigil Harbor can’t be pigeon-holed as an environmentalist wake-up call any more than we can label it a dirge for 21st century politics gone wrong. Readers (alongside the Harborites) may be unnerved by the radicalization of causes they support.
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By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair
by Jennifer Frost
Beyond his blunt and scorching truth telling, Blair has an ability to transform the banal. A butterfly caught beneath a windshield wiper offers an opportunity to recollect and interpret events from a deep personal past
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Who Am I to Judge?
by Jennifer Frost
The gray area comes in when I’m asked to read unfinished work. Riddled with mechanical mistakes and muddled in its narrative, a book like this poses a genuine problem.
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April Reads
by Jennifer Frost
Follow Jennifer Frost Writes on WordPress.com Cooking For Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef by Ian Kelly A biographical cookbook, Cooking for Kings presents scenes of daily life in royal Regency kitchens from the firing of the coal ovens before dawn to the spinning of breathtaking sugar creations for elaborate feasts.…
