A feminist take on the Holmes & Watson tradition? Yes, please! Novelist Sherry Thomas launches a new mystery series with A Study in Scarlet Women. It’s […]
Better Know a Library Staffer: Amy
Here on the blog the other Matchmakers and I share what we are reading, watching, or listening to quite frequently, but we don’t often hear […]
Centennial 100:1966-1976
Part six of a Read/Watch/Listen bookmark series by the Heights Matchmakers, celebrating the Heights Libraries’ Centennial decade by decade! Books: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys […]
Not Literally Swans
Gossip and glamour, fashion and extravagance…. this is the world of mid-twentieth-century New York City that Melanie Benjamin creates so well in her novel, The Swans […]
Genre Spotlight: Historical Fiction
I always enjoy traveling back in time with a good historical fiction novel, especially those with women protagonists. Here are three terrific debut novels about […]
Recently Read
Who wants to be thematic all the time? Not this blogger! I have recently read three books that have absolutely nothing to do with one […]
Genre Spotlight: Fantasy and Historical Mystery
It’s springtime, it’s raining, and I’m filling up an ark with two of every kind… it’s a book ark, and my first two sets of […]
Read Harder Challenge 2016
Book Riot is a great website for book reviews in print, podcasts, and video form, but one thing I really like about them is that […]
More Sherlock Holmes, Please!
You don’t need me to tell you that there are so, so many Sherlock Holmes spin-offs out there, in books and in movies and in […]
