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]
Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage: A Geoffrey Chaucer Murder Mystery by Mary Devlin
Geoffrey Chaucer is invited by two of his old friends to join them on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. Unfortunately, the trip gets a spanner put into it by the murder of one of the travelers; the beautiful yet mysterious gypsy, Sophia. Can Geoffrey (and his old friend … [Read more]
Caribee by Christopher Nicole
CBR18 Bingo: Versus – Lots of conflict in this book - between the English and the Caribs and the Spanish, but also (with a strong Oedipal flavor) the conflict between father and son. Finding himself out of favor with the king, Tom Warner and his young son embark for the New World, hoping to find … [Read more]
The Oracle's Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult by Harrison Hill
CBR18 Bingo: 26 - Published April 7, 2026. Also, Sarah Green escaped her mother's cult at the age of twenty-six. When Sarah Green escaped the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult, she was running away from not only the violence of the group, but from its … [Read more]
Book Club Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday
4.5 stars CBR18 Bingo: Craft (this book dwells a lot on writing as a craft - both novels and screenplays) Thank you to Forever and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Blair Kellermoon (former rom-com star, now powerful producer) has adapted several … [Read more]
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
Now, spoilers here for the previous book; it is a direct continuation, after all. The blurb for Painted Devils starts out fantastically: “Let’s get one thing straight—Vanja Schmidt wasn’t trying to start a cult.” With Little Thieves, I knew that it was a trilogy coming in, but by the end of … [Read more]
The Wolf and his king by Finn Longman
Bingo Square: You (one of the novel’s POVs is 2nd person) I quite enjoyed this novel. It has a kind of dreamy quality to the writing; it’s a queer retelling of a 12th century French werewolf story, and it has a bit of barebones feel to the storytelling that makes it feel like a fairy tale and … [Read more]
