What Are You Reading?

December 13, 2018

I hope you have a book or two to talk about, because I certainly don’t. I spent two days in Nashville. We stayed at the Gaylord Opryland hotel and enjoyed all the Christmas decorations. I went to a Celtic Thunder concert, and spent time at Parnassus Books, the...

Books & Mortar by Gibbs M. Smith

December 12, 2018

The author and illustrator Gibbs M. Smith, along with his wife, started his book publishing company, Gibbs Smith, in 1969. He died in 2017. According to the note in the back of the book, Books & Mortar, it’s a celebration of his legacy, the local...

A Gruesome Discovery by Cora Harrison

December 11, 2018

Here’s a series I’ve read from the very beginning, Cora Harrison’s Reverend Mother series set in Cork, Ireland in the 1920s. I find the history of Ireland fascinating, and everything I’ve learned about history in recent years comes from...

Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy

December 10, 2018

How many of you remember that Ngaio Marsh’s Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn trained as a diplomat before joining Scotland Yard? If you do, it won’t surprise you that he’s working undercover in World War II in New Zealand. Money in the Morgue...

The Second Goodbye by Patricia Smiley

December 09, 2018

Repeat after me, “I wish I had read the first book in the series, but you don’t have to do that to read this book.” It’s become a mantra. Sometimes, you just can’t start at the beginning. Detective Davie Richards is the featured detective...

Sandie’s Corner – Audible’s Best of 2018

December 08, 2018

Because Sandie Herron listens to audio books, and I don’t, she’s the one who caught the announcement that Audible named their Best of 2018. I do know that Audible is owned by Amazon, but these titles may be of interest. I know this was popular last year,...