Booked 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton

June 26, 2017

A “cursed book”. An Arizona setting. An outrageous, slapstick gathering of suspects. They’re all part  of J.C. Eaton’s first Sophie Kimball cozy mystery, Booked 4 Murder. When Harriet Plunkett calls her daughter, Sophie, she insists...

My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul

May 15, 2017

Bob = Book of Books. Of course, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, is a reader. She’s also compulsive, as many of us are, about keeping a list of the books she reads. Paul has kept that list since 1988 when she was a junior in high school....

Admission

January 15, 2017

This is what my dining room table looks like at the moment. I have about five more books to read for a deadline on Wednesday, which means nothing else is getting done over the long weekend. I haven’t had time to read for the blog. The cats and I are stuck on the...

From EarlyWord

December 24, 2016

I don’t think Nora Rawlinson will mind me sharing this. It’s from EarlyWord.com, her site that connects librarians and publishers. Thank you, Nora! Peer Picks One peer pick arrivesthis week and it is both a LibraryReads and an Indie...

Books for Living by Will Schwalbe

November 20, 2016

I’m doing something I seldom do on my blog, talking about a book that isn’t available for another month. It’s released December 27th. If you’re a reader, you might want to ask for it for an after-holiday gift, or use a gift card to buy it. Many...