Re-read June 27, 2022: I haven’t been doing too much but laying in bed and forcing myself to eat food with no taste for about a week now. I got to this one last night and finished it up today though. I also finished a horror book I really enjoyed, so that’s three books down after what felt like an endless year. “The Lilac Bus” is always great to re-read. You in essence get a lot of short stories tied around 8 people in the […]

Re-read June 27, 2022: I just needed a book taking place in a different time and place right now. Though this book starts off in the 1950s and ends around 1971 or so, it still brought me some comfort. Maybe because Binchy really does lay out how hard it was for women in Ireland in that time and place and even mentions a few times how the inhabitants of Shancarring were poor and how many women just had too many children they were just kind […]

January 24, 2022 review: I still love this collection. No updates really from my original review. Original review: I bought this when it first came out and read it. I could have sworn I posted a review, but realized I had not. I did a re-read of this the past two days so thought this was a good time as any to write about the short story collection that Binchy put out about “Chestnut Street.” This was mentioned in “Minding Frankie” and it’s funny that […]

January 22, 2022 review:  I really enjoyed this re-read. I would now honestly give this a 5 now. I was just in the mood for a simple short story. I do miss Maeve Binchy’s writing.  Original review: I gave this short story 4.5 stars. Since Goodreads does not have half stars, I rounded this up to 5 stars on this site. I can’t believe how much oompf Binchy managed to pack in just 38 pages. I honestly can’t believe this story was that short. We […]