Where Are You Reading?

May 04, 2016

I’m down to the last 100 pages of Joshua Hammer’s The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. For years, a young man, Abdel Kader Haidara, traveled across the Sahara and along the Niger River, searching for valuable manuscripts that told the cultural history of...

Pistols and Petticoats by Erika Janik

May 03, 2016

The subtitle of Erika Janik’s nonfiction book, Pistols and Petticoats, is “175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction”. Although the two subjects should fit together perfectly, they didn’t seem to flow as well as they should have in the...

June Treasures in My Closet – Part 2

May 02, 2016

Let’s “jump” (you’ll understand in a second) right into the second part of the June Treasures in My Closet postings. These books will all be released in June. The first book is Keith McCafferty’s latest Sean Stranahan mystery, Buffalo...

June Treasures in My Closet – Part 1

May 01, 2016

Welcome to part 1 of Treasures in My Closet, featuring the June releases. It’s quite an eclectic mix, so  we’ll dive right in. Italian novelist Nanni Balestrini brings us We Want Everything. In the autumn of 1969, Italy exploded as workers went on...

Not a Thing

April 30, 2016

I have nothing to post for today. Wait until tomorrow, though, because I’ll have at least the start of the June Treasures in My Closet. I was up too late on Thursday night with the Edgar Awards, and posting. Friday, I had friends over. We had Staff Institute at...