Meet Dahlia Moss, who is not a detective, okay? She just happens to be around crimes and murders and arrests a lot. Dahlia is the […]
Non-Fiction: Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
Happy New Year! It’s very rare for me to read non-fiction, and I ended the old year AND started the new with a Must Love […]
Historical Romance: Mary Balogh
It’s the perfect time of year to cuddle up with a fun, entertaining read and a warm beverage… make mine a Mary Balogh historical romance […]
Short Stories: Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively’s delightful new collection of short stories, published earlier this year, is called The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories (Overdrive Ebook). This prompted me […]
Historical Fiction: Emily Hauser
Have you read The Iliad lately? Nope, I haven’t either. I’ll just go ahead and mention that The Iliad is Homer’s big Greek epic poem with the judgment of […]
Halloween Contemporary Romance: Marie Harte
Happy Halloween, readers! Any reader of romance novels knows that there are tons of Christmas-themed books in the genre, right? Well, here’s All I Want […]
Genre Mash-Up: Theodora Goss
Hang on to your hats, readers! Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Horror, Historical Fiction…here’s a genre mash-up for you! And it’s also a debut! Dooby-dooby-doo… Take a […]
Four Plot Lines in One: Molly Patterson
If you, like me, are a reader who often has several books going at once, you will revel in Molly Patterson’s debut novel, Rebellion. It really […]
Psychological Fiction: Claire Messud
Some library cataloger somewhere assigned the subject heading “Psychological fiction” to the library catalog record for Claire Messud’s novel The Woman Upstairs. What does that even mean, […]