The Night of the Storm by Nishita Parekh

January 15, 2024

Nishita Parekh’s debut thriller, The Night of the Storm, is a locked room mystery with several different twists. The Indian-American family stuck together in a mansion is trapped by Hurricane Harvey as it hits Houston. And, the protagonist is a single mother of...

The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All by Mary Martha Greene

January 13, 2024

Our friend, Kaye Wilkinson Barley, recommended Mary Martha Greene’s The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Southern Recipes, Sweet Remembrances, and a Little Rambunctious Behavior on her own blog, Meanderings and Muses. It’s just the kind of cookbook I would...

What Are You Reading?

January 11, 2024

Raise your hand if you thought you’d get blown away Tuesday night, Wednesday moring. It was a rough night out there. There’s a great deal of empty land between my place and the next apartment, and the wind just howled through there. I finally got up and...

David Chaudoir’s Favorites of 2023

January 10, 2024

My friend, David Chaudoir, has reviewed here once, and I’ve mentioned him a few times. I’m posting the favorites in the order I received them, and David’s was the second to come in. David is an anthropologist and storyteller who travels the world. He...

A Peek ahead

January 09, 2024

Because I’m trying to read a book every two days for Library Journal, I don’t always have time to finish the book I’m reading for my blog. I don’t like to talk about them much, except on Thursdays, because that spoils the actual review. I do...

Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto

January 08, 2024

Shoji Morimoto is so determined to do nothing that someone else actually wrote his memoir, Rental Person Who Does Nothing. Morimoto contributed to the book by answering questions. While the whole concept is fascinating, there are concepts that are very Japanese, and...