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…the carefree scoundrel and the sensitive spinster…

The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen by Victoria Alexander

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My not so bad habit of judging a book by it’s cover had me snatching this book up at the local drugstore where it has languished in my TBR pile for a few years. I was always going to get to it, but the library prevailed. With no library access and after finishing the last three books that I had checked out, I finally cracked it open. Turns out, it was just the right amount of intrigue, witty banter and smoldering looks to keep me […]

It is only unnatural in the sense that there are human beings who can do this sort of thing to other human beings.

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Anna Waterhouse

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I am woefully behind in both reading and reviewing. It is taking me FOREVER to read these days and when it takes weeks to read something I have zero interest in reviewing it right away. So, here I am, ages after reading this book, trying to come up with 250 words to say about it. KimMiE posted a great review in February, and I strongly suggest skipping this and just reading hers. Seriously. No stranger to Sherlock Holmes re-tellings, I have often mentioned in other reviews how […]

…friendship is hard to define.

Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane

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This was the March pick for my book club. We were set to meet as the stay at home orders started so we obviously didn’t get to discuss it. A member of the club pointed out the irony of having read a book about reconnecting and friendship just as we were holing up in our homes. Seems like a lifetime ago. Kane’s novel is about the self imposed isolation of a middle aged woman who moved back home over a decade ago to help her […]

What a lovely creature you are.

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

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This is a hard book to review or it may be that this is a hard time for me to write a review. I thought that reading would be a refuge for me as we self isolate but concentrating enough to fall into a story hasn’t been easy for me. Oddly, I’m leaning more towards exercise, of all things, stress cleaning, playing Wordscapes and Scrabble on my phone and making meal plans based on the miscellaneous foodstuffs in my house. BUT…if there ever was a story to […]

Her chatty and nervous daughter, and the quiet, thoughtful person she paid to love her.

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

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Reid’s debut novel definitely got a lot of advance press. Everyone was buzzing about it. For the most part, everything that I read highlighted the same plot point: The young black babysitter of a white little girl is detained and interrogated in a grocery store by a security guard because what-on-earth-would-a-little-white-girl-be-doing-under-the-care-of-a-black-woman-dressed-in-night club-attire-at-that-hour. Is the book about this incident? Yes, in part, but it is just an unfortunately recognizable incident that becomes a gateway to so much more. Emira is a bit adrift after graduating from college. […]



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