Book Chat featuring September Cozies from Berkley Prime Crime

August 28, 2016

If you want to see Jinx, you’ll have to go to the end. I had to track him down. He was on the table while I wrote the script, and then disappeared when I filmed. Here are the September titles from Berkley Prime Crime. Cheddar Off Dead – Julia Buckley...

Blah

August 27, 2016

Blah. The cats and I have had a blah week. I could blame Louise Penny and say I just can’t get anything after reading A Great Reckoning. Well, that part’s true about books. I actually read a Christmas book on Wednesday night, but I certainly am not...

Winners and Librarians, Cats, and Murder

August 26, 2016

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Patricia P. from Boynton Beach, FL won Ripped From the Pages. Books of a Feather will go to Robin C. of Ashtabula, OH. The books will go out in the mail today. Why do librarians, cats, and murder go together in the...

What Are You Reading?

August 25, 2016

It’s that time of week! Time to discover what you’re reading. I’ve just started Mary Robinette Kowal’s novel, Ghost Talkers. It’s about mediums who talk to the ghosts of dead World War I soldiers in order to find out enemy troop...

Arsenic with Austen by Katherine Bolger Hyde

August 24, 2016

Katherine Bolger Hyde’s debut mystery makes me regret that I don’t know Austen better. Each chapter of Arsenic with Austen begins with a quote from one of the novels. If I was more knowledgeable, I’d probably have been more familiar with the...