Reviews + Articles

Sandie’s Corner: Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey

Because Sandie Herron read that I was swamped this week, she sent me two reviews that I can post. I’m always grateful when she has my back. So, I’m running one of those reviews today, and one on Friday. Thursday, of course, is “What Are You...

Moving On

Hopefully, I finished that police procedural last night, and moved on to a historical mystery. At least, I needed to do that in order to keep to my schedule for reviews this week. I do have Thursday off, so that will help. After this week, I’ll be back to...

A Moment of Joy

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m on deadline this week, with nothing to fill in. I’ll stop in each morning, but right now I’m one third of the way through a 400 page police procedural. Not really time to read another book to review here. But,...

Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson

I’ve reviewed Craig Johnson’s novella, Spirit of Steamboat, before. But, it’s my favorite of his books, and it’s a Christmas routine for me. I go back and reread it, and cry over it all over again. It’s a World War II veteran, a...

Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani

Michiko Kakutani is the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic who is the former chief book critic for The New York Times. It’s always interesting to see the titles and authors someone picks for a book such as Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread. I was pleased to...

We Are Santa by Ron Cooper

My sister, Linda, gave me We Are Santa: Portraits & Profiles for St. Nicholas Day, and then she didn’t understand why I teared up reading Ron Cooper’s book. Cooper is the photographer who travelled around, taking pictures of men and a woman who...