About Lesa's Book Critiques
| I have been a library manager/administrator for over 30 years, in Ohio, Florida, Arizona, and, now, Indiana. Library Journal Mystery Reviewer of the Year 2018. 2022 Raven Award recipient from Mystery Writers of America. Recipient of the 2018 David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award from Bouchercon Board. Winner of the 2011 Arizona Library Association Outstanding Library Service Award. I am a mystery columnist for Library Journal, Mystery Readers Journal, and ReadertoReader.com. Author of the “Mystery Fiction” chapter in Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (7th ed.) Winner of the 2009 and 2010 Spinetingler Awards for Best Reviewer. |
Recent Posts
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Pratchett
I'm a fan of essay collections. My all-time favorite book is a collection of essays, A Thread of Blue Denim by Patricia Leimbach. When I want to read about home, I reread that book. I was three-quarters of the way through Ann Pratchett's These Precious Days when I...
Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey
Readers who appreciate Jess Lourey's troubled protagonists should latch onto Hannah Morrisey's Hello, Transcriber. This debut features a police transcriber. Hazel Greenlee views Black Harbor, Wisconsin as a purgatory where she's stuck. Her husband, Tommy, is an...
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom's The Stranger in the Lifeboat is the #1 New York Times Bestseller, but I had a difficult time with it. I'm afraid I plodded through it. Albom specializes in parables, but this one just didn't move me. I did like the concluding paragraph. It fits for a...