Lesa's Book Critiques
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Home for the Homicides by Elle Cosimano & Hannah Morrissey
It was Charles Dickens who wrote "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor", but authors Elle Cosimano and Hannah Morrissey took it to heart. I don't know who decided to put these two authors together for Home for the...
What Are You Reading?
Well, I've kept you up-to-date with everything I've been doing, so you've seen the photos of Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, James A. Garfield's home. Saturday, I'm heading to Otterbein University to see Pride & Prejudice, which...
Tell Me About Joy by Kara Kavensky
It was a note from the library that sent me to this book, "While you're waiting" for a novel that hasn't come in yet. Kara Kavensky's Tell Me About Joy is subtitled "A True Story of Love, Regrets, and Second Chances". It wasn't what I expected. I knew it was an...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Truth to Power by S.A. Cosby
I spent Sunday night researching and posting the pictures of Green Lawn Cemetery, and I was busy Monday. Fortunately, Kevin Tipple sent a review of S.A. Cosby's Truth to Power, knowing I had a "Bare review cupboard". Thank you, Kevin. Truth to Power: A Luke Cage...
Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio
I know. How many cemeteries can one person visit? Two of them in four days for my sister, Linda, and me. Yesterday, we did a two hour walking tour of Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus. It opened in 1849 as part of the rural cemetery movement, the trend to build large...
The Dying Light by Ann Cleeves
It was the Shetland books and Jimmy Perez that first introduced me to Ann Cleeves, but I stayed for the Vera Stanhope mysteries, and now the Detective Matthew Venn ones. The Dying Light is the latest Matthew Venn police procedural, with an unexpected twist at the end....
