Lesa's Book Critiques
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April Treasures in My Closet
February went fast. It's already time for Treasures in My Closet, books that will be released in April. Let's get started. We have quite a few titles to get through. Commissaire Dupin returns in Jean-Luc Bannalec's The Fleur de Sel Murders. The old salt farmers...
What Are You Reading?
What better way to end the month than to talk about what we're reading? I'm actually reading a book that comes out in April, Rick Bragg's The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table. It's a combination memoir and cookbooks, written with all of Bragg's...
Happiness is a Choice You Make by John Leland
At the beginning of 2015, John Leland, a journalist for the New York Times, embarked on a year-long project. He met with seniors to come up with six people to follow to learn from them about being old, and what it means today. The result was a series in the newspaper...
Hummus and Homicide by Tina Kashian
Tina Kashian introduces a new culinary cozy mystery series with Hummus and Homicide, centered around a Mediterranean restaurant at the Jersey Shore. It's the typical debut of a cozy mystery series with an amateur sleuth as suspect, and a few appropriate recipes. After...
The Cat of the Baskervilles by Vicki Delany
I love Gemma Doyle's mind. I love the way she thinks. Vicki Delany's third Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, The Cat of the Baskervilles, is another treat for those of us who enjoy Gemma. And, this time, Gemma's caught up in a mystery involving theater. A true...
