Better Off Read by Nora Page

May 12, 2018

I’m always up for a new mystery featuring a librarian or library. Nora Page’s Better Off Read involves a bookmobile and a seventy-five-year-old librarian, Cleo Watkins. Catalpha Springs, Georgia’s mayor, Jeb Day, isn’t interested in repairing...

Winners and No Contest this week

May 11, 2018

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. David C. of Granger, IN and Jeanne P. from Bristol, VA won the copies of Antique Blues. Date with Malice is going to Karen B. from Bloomington, MN and Charlotte W. from Covington, GA. They’re going out today....

What Are You Reading?

May 10, 2018

It’s Thursday! I’m going to be in an important meeting for part of the day, so I won’t be around mid-day, but I’ll start out with all of you, and catch up. I’m not going to talk about what I’m reading today. Instead, I’m going...

Anthony Award Nominations

May 09, 2018

I wanted to share this today because we might want to talk about some of the books for “What Are You Reading” on Thursday, if you’ve read any of them. Congratulations to all of the nominees! The nominations for the 2018 Anthony Awards were announced...

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

May 09, 2018

Caroline Preston, the author of The War Bride’s Scrapbook, actually had an earlier book that was similar. While that book centered on World War II, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, was about a young woman in the twenties. As in the later...

Beyond the Pale by Clare O’Donohue

May 08, 2018

Clare O’Donohue wrote Beyond the Pale just for me. Well, not really. We’ve never met, and we hadn’t corresponded before I read this book. But, she sent her two reluctant spies all over Ireland, most of the time to places I’ve been. It felt as...