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]
Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier Book One) by Hana Lee
Years ago, the world became a barren wasteland, survivable only in the Kerinas, where people with Talents protect the populace from the fierce storms, as well as take care of almost everything else. The Talentless, whose numbers are growing yearly, are barely tolerated in some Kerinas, while … [Read more]
Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard
CBR18 Bingo: Season - The Cazalets are coming into a new season of their lives with the war on, the youngest son Rupert away in France, and new members of the family being born while others are dying. World War Two is now on, and come crashing into the lives of the Cazalets, a clan of well-off … [Read more]
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: Maggie the Undying I by Ilona Andrews
Cbr18bingo 26 (published in 2026) This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the first volume in what I hope will be a multi-volume series by Ilona Andrews. I loved this story full of magic, mystery, danger and possible romance. It starts with a familiar trope — the protagonist finds herself plunked into … [Read more]
"C" is for Corpse: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#3) by Sue Grafton
Shortly after the events of "B" is for Burglar, Kinsey is just trying to get through her physical therapy and not scream too loudly from boredom. That all changes when she's hired by twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan. He wants Kinsey to find out why someone tried to kill him by forcing his … [Read more]
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
Bingo: Versus. Character Anthony Horowitz versus Cara Grunshaw and Derek Mills, two detectives who arrest him for murder. I will never get tired of Anthony Horowitz, I’m calling it now. The Twist of a Knife is another book in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, with Hawthorne being a mysterious … [Read more]
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske
Mattinesh Jay (Matti to almost everyone), dutiful heir to his family's struggling wool business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. His fiance Sofia Cooper, heir to a thriving wine business, is the object of obsession love for one Adrean Vane. … [Read more]
