Happy Thanksgiving!

November 25, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone! I hope you saw my post on Tuesday saying we’ll talk about “What Are You Reading?” on Friday instead of today. Many of us have other plans for today, whether it’s cooking, eating, spending time with family or...

At First Light by Barbara Nickless

November 24, 2021

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, I read George C. Chesbro’s mysteries featuring Dr. Robert “Mongo” Fredrickson who had dwarfism. I didn’t read the later books in the series as they drifted into speculative fiction. Now, one of...

Thursday Road Trip – A Note

November 23, 2021

Rick asked if we were going to talk about books on Thanksgiving, and I’m glad he did. I should have mentioned it last week, and I just never put Thursday and Thanksgiving together at that time. I’ll do a “giving thanks” post as I normally do,...

These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Pratchett

November 23, 2021

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...

Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey

November 22, 2021

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,...