Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
While weather here is delightful right now, sunny and in the 70s, the world is a mess. We all need to take a break from the news to talk about books. I'm just starting to read SJ Bennett's second book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series. Here in the...
Murder at the Porte de Versailles by Cara Black
Murder at the Porte de Versailles marks Cara Black's twentieth book in the Aimee Leduc Investigations series. If you haven't read the series, Aimee Leduc owns a detective agency that specializes in computer security in Paris, France. Now that she is the mother of a...
April Treasures in My Closet
Are you ready for April book releases? If we're lucky, it will actually be spring weather, and we can enjoy these books with sunshine. I am so ready! Let's dive right into the April Treasures in My Closet. Don't forget to let me know what books you're anticipating....
The Day He Left by Frederick Weisel
A couple weeks ago, one of the blog readers mentioned he quit a book because the author never developed the characters. Although that book was the second in the series, he said he didn't know anything about the main character. That isn't a problem with Frederick...
Murder in the Park by Jeanne M. Dams
Jeanne M. Dams, author of the Dorothy Martin mysteries, kicks off the historical Oak Park Village mystery series with Murder in the Park. While the writing seems slow-paced and old-fashioned, there are little-known facts that history fans might find surprising....
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
I ordered a copy of Love in the Library for myself. Maggie Tokuda-Hall's picture book is based on her grandparents' story of incarceration at Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho during World War II. Yas Imamura's soft, desert-toned artwork is perfect to accompany...
