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Had his retinas not been seared by the Christmas tree dress, her dinner gown would have been the most outlandish thing he witnessed today.

Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas

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CBR BINGO: Free! Square (Library Book) Huzzah! It’s BINGO season. The most wonderful time of the year! Man. I love these books. This is the fifth book in Thomas’ Lady Sherlock Series. It’s a gift that keeps giving when you really fall in love with a group of characters that inhabit a book series. As always, if you haven’t read ’em, what are you waiting for? As this is the fifth book in the series, spoilers inevitably follow. In this installment, Charlotte and her posse are back […]

Braveheart

Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton

February's Son by Alan Parks

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By coincidence, I just finished two different mysteries set in Scotland. Both were okay, both should have been better, both merit three stars, and I have more to say about one than the other…   Death of a Gossip It’s fine for what it is: a Scottish cozy mystery Agatha Christie rip off. But it spends way too much time on the boring, awful side characters and not nearly enough time on the wonderfully cantankerous Hamish MacBeth.   February’s Son Cn. Abuse, horrible depictions of […]

The entire series is free, as long as you already have Audible Plus

How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper

Love and Other Wild Things by Molly Harper

Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper

Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper

Always Be My Banshee by Molly Harper

One Fine Fae by Molly Harper

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CBR13 Bingo: Home (so many of the various characters come from very unstable family backgrounds and are only too happy to settle in Mystic Bayou, having finally find somewhere they can properly call home) This is going to be a bulk review for the first six stories (four novels, two novellas) in the Mystic Bayou paranormal romance series by Molly Harper. I listened to all the books in audio, as they are available as part of the Audible Plus catalogue. Considering that I already pay […]

Stuart Turton is an imaginative little turd. I might be a fan for life. #CBRBINGO – Reader’s Choice

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 28/30 This was one of the last books I read in my thirty day book binge, and I think it says something about how good it was that even though I had some book fatigue going on, I happily and quickly finished this in less than two days. It’s not a huge book, but it’s not small, either. Like Turton’s first book, this is a mystery at heart, and also like his first book, there are some complicating factors […]

Lightning Round

Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Batman Earth One, Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns

Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer

Antartica: Journeys to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

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A few reviews of shorter books that I read quickly over the weekend and didn’t have extra time to flesh out… Tonguebreaker ***** Coming to terms with a society that doesn’t want you based on your body…and creating your own space instead…has to be a challenging thing. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha bares her soul to the world in this collection of poems and one-act plays. Her use of language to lecture gripped me and her exploration of what it means to live in this world, to […]



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