Richard Kirshenbaum drops readers into the world of excess and influence in the high class business world of America. Focused on four women and their influential careers spanning primarily from the early 1920s to roughly the 1950s, Kirshenbaum highlights powerful women and the secrets that seem to surround their lives. Beginning with an elaborate funeral, Rouge keeps you in the glittering world of the elite as it reveals the work that must be done to gain and maintain your position at the top of society. Continue reading “Rouge Book Review from @kleffnotes”

Dorothy Alston was just fourteen when her father’s drunken behavior led to the death of her mother. She found a new home with her uncle on a farm in Florida, but thirty-four years after these events Dorothy is in a vegetative state and Ellen Steward, an administrator at the rehab facility Dorothy is being kept in, begins unraveling the story of how a glass key led Dorothy to where she is now. In the pages of Dorothy and the Glass Key Ellen will have to make a choice and if she fails to save the woman in her care she may lose may than she ever expected. Continue reading “Dorothy and the Glass Key Book Review from @kleffnotes”