Lesa's Book Critiques
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
I'm going to start my comments about Satoshi Yagisawa's Days at the Morisaki Bookshop with a little background, including a lengthy quote from the translator, Eric Ozawa. This was an award-winning book and hit movie in Japan. Most of the book takes place in Tokyo's...
Of All Sad Words by Bill Crider
I love the cover of Bill Crider's fifteenth Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery, Of All Sad Words. Nowadays, some authors credit the cover artist. I wish it had happened more often because I think this one is terrific. Not quite accurate, but it's still good. My other...
Sulari Gentill at The Poisoned Pen
I have an unusual post today. I'm going to refer you to another blog. I'm the blogger for The Poisoned Pen bookstore. Yesterday, Sulari Gentill, author of Five Found Dead, launched that mystery at the bookstore. A week ago, I reviewed it here. Five Found Dead is an...
The Great American Retro Road Trip by Rolando Pujol
I'm ready to go on a road trip after reading Rolando Pujol's The Great American Retro Road Trip: A Celebration of Roadside Amercana. It's filled with colorful photos and equally colorful descriptions of the signs, locations, and people who built businesses across...
Knight’s Castle by Edward Eager
"In days of old, when knights were bold,And journeyed from their castles,Trusty men were left behind;Knights needed not the hassles." Jimmy Buffett While I read Edward Eager's Knight's Castle, it was the first part of the above refrain that kept running through my...
The Survivors by Jane Harper
While I appreciate Jane Harper's descriptions of Evelyn Bay, a small coastal town in Tasmania, in The Survivors, I found the story extremely slow moving until the explosive drama of a grieving mother's speech. That occurred two thirds of the way through the book....
