Reviews + Articles
Night Shift by Charlaine Harris
If you haven't read Charlaine Harris' novels about Midnight, Texas, you really can't start with the third, Night Shift. You have to go back to Midnight Crossroad, the first book, to meet the denizens of the small town with one stoplight. You have to meet them...
Let’s Chat
First, congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Lynn L. from Rio Linda, CA won After the Storm by Linda Castillo. Jim G. of Prescott, AZ won A Churn for the Worse by Laura Bradford. The books will go out in the mail tomorrow. I'm not running a giveaway...
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
What a fascinating account! The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer is a story of the past, and an account of present terrorism and destruction of the world's treasures. It's a story of...
Where Are You Reading?
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 northern...
Pistols and Petticoats by Erika Janik
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 book. However, if you...
June Treasures in My Closet – Part 2
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 Jump Blues. After the...