Robert Longpré, the author of A Small Company of Pilgrims appears to be an old soul, one who searches for a sense of the true meaning of life and the inner fulfillment that money, power, and success can’t achieve. His main character, René, a fifty-something Jungian psychotherapist from Canada, reflects an old-soul mentality as he travels along the pilgrim path of the Camino Francés from St. Jean-Pied-du Port, France to Santiago, Spain, while interacting with an interesting, s

Well-written and insightful, Given Up, highlights the joy and heartbreak surrounding the author’s adoption six weeks after she was born and the search for her birth parents long after her adoptive parents raised her in a loving home. It also sheds light on the chance encounters that shaped her life before she was born and decades later. Life would have looked different for Mary Sharon Bailey if her dad and mom had married when her mom discovered she was pregnant. But her biol

It’s important for the protagonist in a book to be flawed, for if the character seems real, not perfect, the reader will more likely bond with him or her. Aren’t we all flawed? Daniel, in Remember: A Unique Love Story is certainly a flawed human being—bitter about his life, an alcoholic, even violent, dark—too dark at times—which was why I didn’t bond with him at first. Yet later, that was not the case at all. I hoped Daniel would get what he so desperately wants—to see the