Category Archives: Book Review

Antiques Cymru is coming to Llanelen in Murder on the Hour, the 7th installment of Elizabeth J. Duncan’s Penny Brannigan series. During the event, a local woman is killed and the quilt she had evaluated by the show goes missing. … Continue reading →

From the BBC: 100. The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938) 99. There but for the (Ali Smith, 2011) 98. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947) 97. The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis, 1949-1954) 96. Memoirs of a Survivor (Doris … Continue reading →

Christmas Escape by Anne Perry is her 13th seasonal novella. Charles Latterly has come to the volcanic island of Stromboli for the Christmas season. Not only does he find an awakening volcano but his guesthouse is full of unhappy people, … Continue reading →

A Vision of Light was a suggestion for me from BookBub today.  This is one of my all-time favorite historical fiction novels.  I highly recommend it if you can get hold of a copy! Here is a description from Goodreads: … Continue reading →

I occasionally read non-fiction, particularly travel and survival stories, so this book was a given for me. As the cover says, it’s “the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska’s frozen wilderness.” Leon Crane and a … Continue reading →

I am lucky to have access to Galley Proofs of new books through NetGalley.  I have just finished two mystery books that are part of new series. Knock on Wood by Linda O. Johnston is set in Destiny, CA, not … Continue reading →

Subtitled True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle, this is a quick and enjoyable read. In 1970, Ms. MacLeod and her family decide to uproot from the frenetic pace of Southern England and move to a very … Continue reading →

I love mysteries and read three very different ones during the month of March. A Batter of Life and Death by Ellie Alexander is the second book in the Bakeshop Mysteries series. I haven’t read the first so this is … Continue reading →

This is another fine entry into the Cat In the Stacks mystery series. Charlie Harris is a part-time cataloger in the Archives Section at Athena College in Mississippi. When Mayor Long donates 4 volumes of a Civil War Diary of … Continue reading →

This book, by Molly Guptill Manning, will appeal most to bibliophiles and librarians.  It relates the story of the Armed Service Editions (ASE) of books supplied to U.S. soldiers around the world during World War II.  120 million small, lightweight … Continue reading →