Rosemary Kaye’s Favorites of 2021

January 26, 2022

Rosemary Kaye is another one of our regular readers on Thursdays. Some of you might have read her letters from Scotland that she’s kindly allowed me to share here. I always love to read her comments about books. While some of them are readily available here in...

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk

January 25, 2022

While Eva Jurczyk’s debut novel is called The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, it could have just as easily been called The Department of Missing Books and Special Librarians. First there’s one missing book. Then a missing librarian. Then...

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

January 24, 2022

Janice Hallett’s debut novel, The Appeal, is unlike any epistolary novel you’ve read. Even the title has several meanings. And, the story itself? Don’t believe anything until you get to the end of the book. All you can do is guess with the clues...

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

January 23, 2022

If you love books, physically as well as for the contents, you might want to pick up Sosuke Natsukawa’s The Cat Who Saved Books. If you’re like me, and appreciate all the little tidbits, I’d suggest you skip to the end of the book before reading it....

What Are You Reading?

January 20, 2022

Have you had reading time this week? I hope you weren’t caught up in snow or tornadoes or the remnants of a tsunami. I hope you had time just to relax and enjoy a good book or two. At the time I’m writing this, I have one more mystery, and forty pages in...

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

January 19, 2022

Years ago, a friend suggested I’d like Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! because I’m a fan of police procedurals. The eighth book in the Discworld series is a police procedural with the most awkward group of police you’d ever want to meet, the...