The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan

November 23, 2025

Jenny Colgan’s latest novel, The Secret Christmas Library, might encourage you to escape to the Scottish Highlands while hoping to be snowed in at a castle for the holidays. Well, not me. I hate snow and winter, but the story was still a delightful love story to...

Sugar and Spite by Carol J. Perry

November 22, 2025

Rhys Bowen, author of Her Royal Spyness series, recently said one of the biggest mistakes an author can make is to add a baby to an amateur sleuth’s life. I wonder if Carol J. Perry decided to end her Witch City mystery series by giving Lee and Pete Mondello a...

An Election by John Scalzi

November 21, 2025

After reading John Scalzi’s Constituent Service, set in the Third District of an unnamed planet, I went back to read the short novella, An Election. In fact, it’s actually a short story more than a novella, but it’s amusing, as well as topical,...

What ARe You Reading?

November 20, 2025

I’m so glad I called my sister yesterday morning. I had failed to put last night’s play on my calendar. As she said, when she called to tell me she was leaving to pick me up, I would have been in my jammies. We went to see “Some Like It Hot.”...

Slight Mourning by Catherine Aird

November 19, 2025

The sixth book in Catherine Aird’s Calleshire Chronicles, Slight Mourning, was not one of my favorites. Despite one funny report about a regimental reunion at a hotel, this mystery was slow-paced, in fact, plodding. After a dinner party at his home, Bill Fent...