Lesa's Book Critiques
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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
I've been intrigued by Death as a character ever since I read Mort by Terry Pratchett. However, Ben Reeves' debut novel, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is certainly not funny. Reeves says he reads for language and voice and tone. His narrator, Death, in the...
It’s About Time by Carol J. Perry
I liked Carol J. Perry's Witch City Mysteries. She ended that series, and spun it off with It's About Time, the first Wicked Salem book. I won't be reading more of these. The main character, and her friends, are just too ridiculous. I found all of their antics, as...
Chapter and Curse by Elizabeth Penney
If Elizabeth Penney's haunted Ravensea Castle isn't for you, maybe you'd prefer a cozy series set in a Cambridge Bookshop. Chapter and Curse takes an American librarian and her mother back to her mother's hometown in a small village called Hazelhurst. Molly Kimball's...
Long Weekend
I've been reading all weekend, but yesterday I took a little time off for PBS and an August release. Here's something you don't know about me. John Deere tractors are favorites in my family; books and real and toy tractors. So, when I saw PBS was showing a program...
City of Brass: And Other Simon Ark Stories by Edward D. Hoch
If you picked up yesterday's collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, you might want to skip City of Brass: And Other Simon Ark Stories by Edward D. Hoch. I'm glad I tried them, but they're much slower paced and not as interesting as the Holmes stories. Supposedly,...
The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch
I took a page from Jeff' Meyerson's book and read a collection of Edward D. Hoch's short stories. I've read individual ones before, but twelve stories about one subject is better than the individual ones. As a Sherlock Holmes fan, I admire Hoch's voice with The...
