“The Bookstore Family” by Alice Hoffman

July 29, 2025

When I reviewed Alice Hoffman’s “The Bookstore Keepers” yesterday, I said the first in the series, “The Bookstore Sisters” was my favorite. But, Hoffman wrapped up The Once Upon a Time Bookshop series with the best, “The Bookstore...

“The Bookstore Keepers” by Alice Hoffman

July 28, 2025

“The Bookstore Keepers” is the third short story in Alice Hoffman’s Once Upon a time Bookshop Series. I reviewed “The Bookstore Sisters” last August, https://bit.ly/3IPvnfI. A week later, I reviewed “The Bookstore Wedding”,...

Throwing Shade by Deborah Wilde

July 27, 2025

I don’t know when I’ve had so much fun reading a book. Maybe when I read John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society a couple years ago. But, Deborah Wilde’s Throwing Shade is nothing like the science fiction novel. Think shape-shifting...

Writers and Liars by Carol Goodman

July 26, 2025

So many authors put their own twist on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. In Writers and Liars, Carol Goodman sets her novel on a Greek Island, brings in a group of authors who were there fifteen years earlier, and provides a Greek mythology background....

Something Whiskered by Miranda James

July 25, 2025

Yes and no on the seventeenth book in Miranda James’ Cat in the Stacks Mystery. Yes, it’s delightful with the Irish setting, more of Diesel the Maine Coon cat, and even a ghost cat named Fergal. But, if you’re looking for Charlie Harris, the...