Grow The Roses

Writing. Reading. Life. Love. Family.

  • The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

    The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel is a narrative on the premise that the devil has arrived in small town Ohio in the form of a “very dark and small” thirteen year old boy.  Fielding Bliss is the boy who befriends him, and brings him home. What follows is the reactions of the small town…

  • The Letters of Ivor Punch by Colin MacIntyre

    The Letters of Ivor Punch by Colin MacIntyre is a novel set on a Scottish Hebridean Island (again, by coincidence like the last novel I read, thanks Universe for leading me there again). This one is a very different one. It tells of the letters of the elderly Ivor Punch and a whole mix of…

  • My Mother and the Hungarians by Frankie McMillan

    My Mother and the Hungarians was my introduction to the ‘Flash Novella’ the first book of its kind that I had read. I was taken with it immediately, with the short ‘snapshots’ of stories that could be on its own, or sewn together with others to create a longer story. I liked the fluidy through…