Lesa's Book Critiques
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Bookworm by Lucy Mangan
I am the wrong nationality to appreciate Lucy Mangan's Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading. She's younger than I am, but her childhood reading in the '80s is certainly different than mine in the '60s. I preferred her Bookish, her memoir of adult reading. The...
Tryst by Elswyth Thane
I have a fondness for paranormal romance-like mysteries. I say romance-like, because, despite the overall feeling, there's no physical romance. The man in these books is dead, a ghost. Despite the attraction, there's nothing to be done about it. There's The Ghost...
Saturday, March 14
From Lesa's site admin: There will be no Saturday blog post on March 13 due to an internet outage. Hoping it will be resolved in time for Sunday's...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan
Well, I'm caught up in basketball fever. I'm a big college basketball fan, and I've watched almost every Duke basketball game that's been televised. I've been a fan for over twenty-five years. This week is the tournament, and March Madness starts next week. I do...
What Are You Reading?
It's been a good week. You already read about the program with Norah O'Donnell and Connie Schultz on Monday night. Linda and I are already making more plans. We have tickets to see Mary Kay Andrews at a luncheon in June. She'll talk about her forthcoming book, Road...
Once and Again by Rebecca Serle
Don't you wonder about a review that begins with "although"? Although I wanted to love Rebecca Serle's latest novel, Once and Again, and I finished it, I didn't love it. In fact, the three female characters all fell flat for me. Although it was their story, it was...
