Lesa's Book Critiques
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Winners and What Are You Reading?
This week's contest will kick off tomorrow because I have an excerpt from the book and the giveaway ready to go then. But, congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Bonnie P. from Palo Alto, CA won Berried Secrets. Better Homes and Corpses is going to...
Book Chat – April’s Cozy Mysteries from Penguin’s Berkley Prime Crime & Obsidian
Just a glimpse of Josh this month. Jinx was there for a second, but didn't stay. I hope you enjoy the book chat without cats! Here are this month's titles. Breach of Crust - Ellery Adams (5th Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery) Bittersweet - Susan Wittig Albert...
Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper
Marla Cooper combines cozy mystery, exotic wedding locations and fun characters in what is undoubtedly the first in a new series, Terror in Taffeta. Wedding planner Kelsey McKenna normally enjoys planning destination weddings. But, the wedding in San Miguel de...
Disappearing Ink by Travis McDade
"He was quite possibly the least sneaky book thief in the history of the crime, and yet he kept getting away with it." If a fiction writer wrote about David Breithaupt's ten years of theft from Kenyon College's Olive and Chalmers Library, everyone would say a bumbling...
Lit Up by David Denby
I was lucky enough to have high school English teachers who challenged us every day. Larry Zimmer, my teacher for junior and senior English, was the best teacher I ever had in all my years of schooling, and twice I wrote pieces in which I thanked him. So, I was...
The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHale
I'll admit for a while I wasn't fond of the narrator in Celeste Fletcher McHale's debut novel, The Secret to Hummingbird Cake. But, stick with it. This is not your typical chick lit book, and Carrigan Whitfield learns a few hard lessons in the course of the story....
