Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Are You Reading?
I hope you had a good week! We had great porch-sitting weather, and then yesterday we had an all-day rain, just what we needed. Last Thursday was my favorite afternoon of the week, though. My sister, Linda, and I went to Westerville, first to a new-to-us bookstore,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
