Lesa's Book Critiques
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Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
No, Dear Mr Knightley isn't the book I was struggling to read the other day. After reading over half of that one, I finally gave up. Instead, I moved on to Katherine Reay's epistolary novel, Dear Mr. Knightley, a contemporary update to Jean Webster's...
The In Death Cookbook by Theresa Carle-Sanders
I mentioned Theresa Carle-Sanders book, The In Death Cookbook, several months ago. The foreword is by J.D. Robb, who writes the wonderful In Death series featuring Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the photographers who...
Kevin’s Corner Annex – Crime Writer by Vinnie Hansen
Do you read like I do? When I'm loving a book, I can tear through 400 pages in one day, two at the most. When a book is not appealing to me, I slog through it, and it takes me days. I've written Tuesday's review of a book I enjoyed. I loved Jan Karon's My Beloved,...
My Beloved by Jan Karon
It's been eight years since the last book in Jan Karon's Mitford series. I wish I had gone back and read the last one because there were a couple storylines that I don't remember from the previous books. However, My Beloved brings back all the beloved characters,...
The Impossible fortune by Richard Osman
Why is it that when Bitcoin is involved in a mystery, I find it boring? Probably because no financial mystery has interested me since Emma Lathen wrote the Wall Street Mystery series featuring John Putnam Thatcher. And, as much as I like the group from The Thursday...
“3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years” by John Scalzi
I read Kelley Armstrong's time travel historical mystery "Rip Through Time" series. But, I really kicked off my interest in time travel stories in fifth grade when we read H.G. Wells' Time Machine. But, my all-time favorite time travel story is Ray Bradbury's "A...
