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What Are You Reading?
Monday was the first time I've had Presidents' Day off in ten years. I spent much of it at my friend Donna's house. In January, we did a movie day, the first we had done since Covid in 2020. That was a western day. We watched a 1951 movie that I love, Westward the...
We Should Not Be Friends by Will Schwalbe
Will Schwalbe, the author of The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living, now turns his attention to an unlikely friendship. Schwalbe, who thought he had all the friends he needed in college, all the literary geeks and lesbians and gay men like him, found...
Murder at an Irish Bakery by Carlene O’Connor
The ninth in Carlene O'Connor's Irish Village mystery series, Murder at an Irish Bakery, is my favorite in the series. There are several reasons. First, I didn't feel overwhelmed by all of the members of Garda Siobhan O'Sullivan's family. And, the baking...
Death in Irish Accents by Catie Murphy
I haven't read all of the Dublin Driver mysteries, but I think I've read enough. Like Megan Malone's girlfriend, Jelena, in Death in Irish Accents, the fourth investigation in as many books was enough for me. It's no wonder people are calling Megan "the murder...
Have You Heard? – Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger
If you follow this blog closely, you know Sandie Herron worked her way through William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Conner series. Fortunately for all of us, she shares the reviews of the audiobooks. Today, it's Desolation Mountain. Desolation MountainWritten by William...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Dogtown: A Willie Black Mystery
It's always fun to post a review for a book that you normally wouldn't see at Lesa's Book Critiques. Thank you to Kevin Tipple for his review of Howard Owen's Dogtown. I have long been a fan of the Willie Black series that started with Oregon Hill. Published in...