Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan

Well, I’m caught up in basketball fever. I’m a big college basketball fan, and I’ve watched almost every Duke basketball game that’s been televised. I’ve been a fan for over twenty-five years. This week is the tournament, and March...

What Are You Reading?

It’s been a good week. You already read about the program with Norah O’Donnell and Connie Schultz on Monday night. Linda and I are already making more plans. We have tickets to see Mary Kay Andrews at a luncheon in June. She’ll talk about her...

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

Don’t you wonder about a review that begins with “although”? Although I wanted to love Rebecca Serle’s latest novel, Once and Again, and I finished it, I didn’t love it. In fact, the three female characters all fell flat for me. Although...

Bookish by Lucy Mangan

I have Rosemary Kaye to thank for introducing me to British author Lucy Mangan. Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives is really about Mangan and how reading shaped her life. Books saw her through her college years, her jobs afterward, introduced her to her husband,...

The Blood Promise by Mark Pryor

While the third book in Mark Pryor’s Hugo Marston series had a fascinating two hundred year old mystery, it was also a tragic book. The Blood Promise introduced a new character, but the killing of another one was shocking. I made it through the murder, but I...

Comfort Reads

Since last week, we’ve been talking about what constitutes a comfort read. Anything you think of as a comfort read qualifies. Is it a book you reread? A lot of people don’t reread because there are too many new books out there. Is it a genre you turn to,...