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]
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel finds Lucy Foley, a very popular thriller writer whom I've never read, taking over the world's best-selling novelist's second-best known character. Because I've never read Foley's other novels, I can't tell if she seems like a natural fit for Miss Marple, but from … [Read more]
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
I have been reading these severely out of order, but they're so readable that I've been able to follow what's happening and I enjoy every one of them. I hadn't realized that Swordheart and Daggerbound were in the same world as the Paladin novels, which was a really welcome surprise when I … [Read more]
Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story by Rich Cohen
I like true crime and I've read plenty of it in my lifetime, so this review is not a slam on the genre as a whole. I grew up devouring Ann Rule books and I enjoy an examination of a murder, especially one freighted with class and gender issues, as this one was. However, I do think with true crime … [Read more]
Blue Period Vol. 17 by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Spoilers follow throughout this review! This was a series that I put off for a while because of my bad tendency to reject popular works at first, but this is popular for a reason, it's really wonderful. I continue to try to overcome my knee-jerk reaction to scorn recommended works, because when I … [Read more]
Hirayasumi Vol. 8 by Keigo Shinzo
Kirayasumi Vol. 9 by Keigo Shinzo
I got these volumes as a belated birthday gift and they were much appreciated as I do really love this series! Hirayasumi is a slice of life manga that follows Hiroto, a relaxed man who works at a fishing pond in Tokyo. He inherited a house from an old woman whom he befriended (Hiroto is that kind … [Read more]
Time for Haiku: Four Seasons of Poems by Josep Santaeulàlia, Lawrence Schimel and Luciano Lozano
Read via an online reader copy, Time for Haiku: Four Seasons of Poems by Josep Santaeulàlia, Lawrence Schimel (translator), and Luciano Lozano (illustrator) felt like it was going to be just another book about the seasons in one of two formats: way too poetic and simple, or way too scientific and … [Read more]
