Are you familiar with The Rap Sheet blog? Since we all like mysteries, you should at least check it out, https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/ I ask because Kevin Tipple’s review of Tim Sullivan’s The Monk was linked there this week. Since I’m still at Mom’s with a busy day today before going home, I’m sharing that review here… Continue reading Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Monk by Tim Sullivan
Category: Book Reviews
Orris and Timble: Star Stories by Kate DiCamillo
For the past three years, I’ve been featuring Kate DiCamillo’s Orris and Timble stories, with charming illustrations by Carmen Mok. Orris and Timble: Star Stories completes the trilogy about the rat and the owl. Although the series is designed for young readers ages 5 to 8, I read it to a four-year-old the other day.… Continue reading Orris and Timble: Star Stories by Kate DiCamillo
What Are You Reading?
The weekend was busy, and this coming weekend will be as well. I needed the down time in the middle. Saturday, I had the library’s book tasting, and then went to Linda’s. Linda and Kevin’s oldest son was in town with his daughter, so Mom and Christie came down to see them. I lost multiple… Continue reading What Are You Reading?
A Hard Ticket Home by David Housewright
When they say “mean streets”, it means Minneapolis/St. Paul, at least where “Mac” McKenzie is concerned. The first of David Housewright’s Rushmore McKenzie novels, A Hard Ticket Home, sucked me in. I’m happy to say there are twenty-two more books in the series. Mac was a cop in St. Paul for eleven years before a… Continue reading A Hard Ticket Home by David Housewright
Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams
I enjoyed Denise Williams’ contemporary romance, The Re-Do List, enough that I picked up Love and Other Flight Delays at the library. It’s a collection of three novellas all centered around the same airport. It’s light and fluffy, and the stories are so short there’s not enough time for the romantic misunderstandings to become problematic.… Continue reading Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams
May Book Tasting
We had our monthly book tasting at the Canal Winchester Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library on Saturday. I won’t always be able to be there, but I care enough that I went there before going to my sister’s when family was in. I enjoy the discussions of books, and the comments as all the… Continue reading May Book Tasting
The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
Over the years, I’ve read a number of Marie Bostwick’s novels. The Book Club for Troublesome Women is the first one that made me angry. It wasn’t the book itself. It was a very good book. But Bostwick included so many unfair conditions for women that were in place in 1963. That made me angry.… Continue reading The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
Kevin’s Corner Annex – From the Dust by David Swinson
I fully intended to have my own review here today, and to save Kevin Tipple’s reviews for my trip home at the end of the week. But, the book I’m finishing makes me so angry that I want to talk about it. And, I won’t be around much today with the library book chat and… Continue reading Kevin’s Corner Annex – From the Dust by David Swinson
My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi
I can see why Masateru Konishi’s My Grandfather, the Master Detective was a bestseller in Japan. It’s filled with mystery, short tales, suggestions of romance, and evil. The author, and the translator, Louise Heal Kawai, lovingly portray the relationship between a granddaughter and her beloved grandfather who is succumbing to Lewy body dementia.But, his lucidity… Continue reading My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi
What Are You Reading?
It’s Thursday! I’ve had a quiet week. It’s been windy here, but I still took a walk and sat on my patio one day. Other than that, I’ve been reading. I do have a busy weekend coming up. Linda’s son and granddaughter are coming in, so my Mom and Christie will come down to visit… Continue reading What Are You Reading?