Barbara Nickless, Guest Author

On Barbara Nickless’ website, https://www.barbaranickless.com/, it says she was a technical writer, instructional designer, raptor rehabilitator, astronomy instructor, sword fighter and piano teacher before turning seriously to writing. She’s the...

July Treasures in My Closet

July! Hard to believe I’m talking about July book releases. This year, when we ask where does the time go, we all know what happened to it. My internal calendar is so off this year. Anyways, it’s time to talk about July releases. Hopefully, with libraries...

Distractions

Monday is the July Treasures in My Closet post, so I hope people show up today for the weekly conversation. How are you doing? Do you need distractions? What are you doing if you can’t push yourself to read a book? I slept late yesterday, or I should say, I went...

Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander

One of my librarian friends has been recommending Ellie Alexander’s Bakeshop mysteries to me for a couple years. I finally picked up the first in the series because I was so satisfied with the forthcoming book in Alexander’s Sloan Krause series. I like the...

The Blues Don’t Care by Paul D. Marks

As much as I loved Paul D. Marks’ mystery, The Blues Don’t Care, it’s going to be a difficult book to review. The summary won’t give away anything that isn’t on the book jacket. However, I’ll never be able to capture and define the...