I don't usually read holiday-themed books around Christmas, but I think this year I was looking for plenty of comfort reads and found those in books with a Christmas-y theme. The final two I read were Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory and Murder on a Midnight Clear by Sara Rosett. Reading Royal Holiday is like … Continue reading Two Last Christmas Reads
Julia Spencer-Fleming started the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series in 2002, and the eighth book came out in 2013. I read them all, and eagerly awaited the next one...which came out seven years later in 2020! Hid From Our Eyes was worth the wait. The last installment, Through the Evil Days, was not my … Continue reading The Seven-Year Itch…for the Next Julia Spencer-Fleming Book
The coronavirus has led to MANY book purchases, but this small stack of recent acquisitions looks totally reasonable. I'm looking forward to the Rancho Gordo cookbook, especially now that I have an instant pot for easy bean-cooking. I bought it from Native Seeds/SEARCH. Dear Haiti, Love Alaine looks like a perfect summer-fun read about a … Continue reading A Small Haul
Sometimes I read some unusual books for my Dewey Decimal Challenge, and my June stack includes a few of those--Herefordshire Speech, The Library Book Cart Precision Drill Team, and I'm Not Hanging Noodles by Your Ears. The good part is that I learn some obscure but interesting info. From Herefordshire Speech by Winifred Leeds, I … Continue reading June Wrap-Up
Books with a strong sense of place usually appeal to me, but even more so now when I can't travel because of the global pandemic. This Verlaque and Bonnet mystery series, set in Aix-en-Provence, has hit the spot; I've finished six of the eight (not in order) and am reading number seven right now. Antoine … Continue reading A Vacation Murder Mystery
