Summer is a good time for some fun with book titles. While you slather your body parts with sunscreen, let's insert some body parts into book titles. Change one word in a book title to a body part to make a fun new title. Here are some of mine: Lady Chatterley’s Liver The Armpit and the … [Read more]
A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James
I have to say this was really good. I couldn't put it down. I think I sped read this in less than 6 hours and then went back over it and re-read some of my favorite parts before finally turning to bed last night. Though this book is part of St. James's Fell, New York series, you don't have to read … [Read more]
It's Not Her by Mary Kubica
I don't know what to say. I found the overall resolution to this one to not just be implausible, but when we get the reveal about who took/killed a missing girl it just had me going what in the world. It was very much out of left field and it just didn't even make sense. I did laugh at this … [Read more]
A Doctor at Heart: The Story of Groundbreaking Scientist and Teacher Vivien Thomas by Joan Schoettler and Steffi Walthall
This man grew up in a family that demanded perfection, he would grow up to graduate with honors, he would lose all his money in the stock market crash, and he would go on to be the man who helped find a cure for blue baby syndrome. He was Vivien Thomas. Oddly enough, though they mention the pay … [Read more]
How to Draw a Zombie by Zoey Abbott and August Wagner
Before I decided to go into the book business, I thought about maybe doing something with advertising. I figured I was good at it. After all, if I hated the commercial nine times out of ten the commercial would be a huge hit and/or the product took off (think frogs and beer…. cringe). But I decided … [Read more]
The Skeleton and the Cat by Brandon James Scott
This is the time of year when one is bombarded with emails about new books just out or coming out soon. Most of the time, I’m not really interested in them. Not to say they are not good, or even interesting sounding, just I have to pick what I spend time with. I find reading picture books is a way … [Read more]
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
We Solve Murders is the first book I read this year, and still the best. It's by Richard Osman, writer of the Thursday Murder Club series (which I have since started, and which I also like, but not as much). It's also probably the first of a new series but so far the only entry. The central pair … [Read more]
