When you recommend a book the first thing you do is explain what the book is about. I sometimes struggle to accurately describe a book without giving too much away while still capturing the plot. For today's diversion you can throw that all away. Today we will attempt to describe a book in the … [Read more]
Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman by Mallory O'Meara
cbr18 Bingo Wheels (train) Having lived in Los Angeles for some 50 years now, one of my favorite things is taking tours of Old Hollywood. We aren’t talking about the studios, but Hollywood of the silent era, where everything was filmed right out in the streets. You can still see where most of … [Read more]
Dina Gets Lucky by Uzma Jalaluddin
This was an ARC from Union Lake Publishing and NetGalley. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Dina Haq is the eldest sister and, as such, has always felt like she has to be the perfect one. She is a successful lawyer in her parents' law firm, and she married the right man (on … [Read more]
Queen of Lombard Street by Lisa Kleypas
3.5 stars Thank you to Avon and NetGalley for this ARC. It has not influenced my opinions in any way. This book is on sale now. Reina Martin is the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish dancer and a prominent banker. She's an intelligent child and understands early on that her father has another, … [Read more]
Sycorax: A Novel by Nydia Hetherington
In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Sycorax was a witch who had been banished to an island where she gave birth to her son Caliban. Sycorax is already dead and gone when The Tempest takes place, and what we know of her comes from Prospero’s angry rantings about the “blue-eyed hag.” Shakespeare does not … [Read more]
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
CBR18 BINGO: Sheep (see cover) BINGO: Joker, Sheep, Justice, 26, Friends Back in 2024 I read John Scalzi's Starter Villain, and I loved it so much I thought I'd found my new favorite author of silly, profane novels. A short time after that, I read the Kaiju Preservation Society, and while I … [Read more]
“G” is for Gumshoe: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#7) by Sue Grafton
Fresh on finally seeing what her new apartment looks like, Kinsey gets a new case- professional invalid Irene Gersh wants her to locate Irene's mother Agnes- a free-spirited woman living in a desert in Nevada, who has been no-contact with Irene for six-months. But before Kinsey can get the show … [Read more]
