Reviews + Articles
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb
J.D. Robb's sixtieth "In Death" novel, Bonded in Death, is due out on Feb. 4. That makes it perfect timing to share Kevin Tipple's review of the fifty-third in the series, Forgotten in Death. Thank you, Kevin. It is late May 2061 as Forgotten in Death: An Eve...
Glen Davis’ Favorites of 2024
Thank you, Glen, for sending us your list of favorite books read in 2024. I look forward to your comments every Thursday because I always find something to smile at in your pithy remarks. Thanks for sharing this list with us. This year, for whatever reason, I...
What Are You Reading?
How are you doing this week? I hope the fires stayed away, Mark. I hope the rest of you are staying warm. It was 6 degrees here when I got up yesterday morning. Six degrees! That's way too cold for this warm weather person. I left the house twice this week, and...
tomato Sandwiches are Eaten Over the Sink by Sean Dietrich
If there's anything that can get me out of a reading slump, it's a good book of essays. I have to thank Bev for mentioning Sean Dietrich's new book, Tomato Sandwiches are Eaten Over the Sink. Everything she said last Thursday about this book is correct. The...
The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime by Vicki Delany
In the tenth book in Vicki Delany's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series, The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime, the author packs up bookstore owner Gemma Doyle and her friends and sends them to London. You would think West London, Massachusetts would be...
The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
I liked the premise of Melissa Larsen's novel, The Lost House, but she lost me with her protagonist. Agnes Glin was too troubled for me to appreciate her story. She's terrified, lonely, and an addict, not my kind of character. In 1979, long before she was born,...