Lesa's Book Critiques
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What Can I Bring? Southern Food for Any Occasion Life Serves Up by Elizabeth Heiskell
I was raised in Ohio. Just as in the South, when someone dies, just returns from the hospital, has problems, we take food to the house. It may not be the Southern recipes from this book, but I was eager to read Elizabeth Heiskell's cookbook, What Can I Bring?...
Winners and an Amateur Sleuth Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Bury the Past is going to Marie R. from Horseheads, NY. Mary P. from Rome, NY won A Hunt in Winter. Due to our weather, the books will go out in the mail on Saturday. This week, I'm giving away two mysteries...
What Are You Reading?
First, I want to thank Jeff, Grace, Margie and Glen for sharing their favorite books of 2017. Let's do it again next year! Watch for those good books this year. I bet it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone that I'm finishing Foxglove Summer, the next book in Ben...
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
While Broken Homes isn't my favorite in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, the ending came as surprise. And, it was perfect. Peter Grant is a police constable with a little bit of magic. He and a former classmate, Lesley May, reside at the Folly with their...
A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
How often do you read a novel and find it so wonderful that it makes you want to not only reread it, but also read another book? Deanna Raybourn's third Veronica Speedwell mystery, A Treacherous Curse, moves the characters' relationship along, while also making...
Murder of a Good Man by Teresa Trent
I liked the first mystery in Teresa Trent's new Piney Woods series. I really did, and I hope to read the next book. But, her stereotypes and comment about a senior really bothered me when I realized how old the character was. And, neither the author nor the amateur...
