Short Stories Book Reviews

In Set Yourself Free Ellery, Ellery Roulet is an American with a career in Paris and she has made an emotionally crushing discovery.  It threatens her marriage to Julien and the life she knows as a mother to twins Evie and Maddie.  The story is told from Ellery’s point of view as well as that of Julien and his lover, Katrine.  Carolyn Moncel presents a compelling story and in fifty pages conveys the hopes and angst of all three.

While Ellery’s struggle is perhaps the most developed, Julien and Katrine weigh their choices with equal depth of feeling.  Moncel […]

According to The American Heritage Dictionary, hypocrisy is defined as “the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold up or possess; insincerity.”  Most people abhor hypocrisy, and yet many are guilty of it as well.  After all, we are human and intrinsically flawed.  Diane Dunning’s ebook, The River Secrets, delves into this issue.  Are there levels to hypocrisy?  And better yet are there levels to sin?   Does your notion of sin depend on the identity of the sinner?

The River Secrets centers on two lovers: Anthony and Francis.  Anthony is a nun living in […]