Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Judging some books by their covers

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

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A few months ago on vacation, my niece and I stopped in a bookstore to browse. We saw the Shady Hollow series display at the same time and both said, “Ooooh.” These books have the most charming covers, so I downloaded the first one from my library to read on the flight home. Naturally, my hope was that the story would be just as charming so I could justify buying them all to hoard like a dragon. Sadly, ’twas not to be. Shady Hollow, a cozy mystery […]

If Agatha Christie wrote The Wind in the Willows

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

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CBR 16 Bingo – Détante: The town was peaceful, but that state of peace was clearly fragile, and it was disturbed. In the small town of Shady Hollow woodland creatures live in harmony and peace. That is until Otto Stump, an old toad, is killed. The town reporter, Vera Vixen, who has been looking for a way to rise in the ranks in the town paper plans to write about the case and do some investigative work of her own. When she discovers that the […]

A Fable-ulous Murder

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I found this book during a stop at Boswell Books in Milwaukee, WI, my favorite independent bookshop ever in this country, and maybe beyond. This matters because it turns out one of the authors works there as a bookseller; there are 2 authors who together use the name Juneau Black I didn’t get an autograph though because she was in the middle of something when I was there, but maybe next time. So, Shady Hollow is nominally a murder mystery, classified as the cozy sort. […]



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