Book review #29 for 2024 is Collin Dexter's The Dead of Jericho. Another Inspector Morse installment. The characterization of Morse in this novel showed an uncertain and anxious detective who works to solve a murder of a woman that he was wanting to have a relationship with (affair is the better word). ☕☕☕ cup review #bookstodon#books#fiction#bookreview@bookstodon@books@bookstodon
Until high school, Kate Feiffer believed that her mother Judy's novel, "A Hot Property," was about real estate. Then a boyfriend plucked the book from the shelves, started reading passages aloud, and revealed it was a piece of 1970s erotica. From then until just a few years ago, Kate considered "A Hot Property" to be her literary Waterloo — the book she'd hoped to conquer but never been able to. But after her mother's death, she picked up the novel and — between bouts of screaming and cringing — found something more thoughtful and reflective than she was expecting. Here's what she wrote for LitHub.
Check out the last book of the The House on Sunrise Lagoon series ! It is the perfect series for the summer. It is a perfect middle grade cozy read, full of wonderful characters. You can find it in the #littlefreelibrary !
Wole Talabi's debut novel, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, is unique, fast-paced, exciting, and highly recommended. I hope this is not the last we see of Shigidi and Nneoma.
The Baby-Sitters Club meets Kelly Yang in this first book in a sparkling middle grade series about a young Korean American girl who starts a business with her best friends to support her artistic dreams.
Read THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER by V.E. Schwab if you love old friends, new friends, strong tea, being a hero, rebellions, running away, heists, chronic illness, magic items, sacrifices, festivals, markets, crowded shops, mirrors, f**ked up families & seeing what others do not.
Original day off plan for afternoon film postponed, as I realised there was a screening perfectly timed for after work tomorrow, so instead stroll to local, a pint of Jarl, and get on with reading in preparation for Cymera Festival chairing duties.
I've not chaired a gig since before my surgery a few months back, now I have three author events within a month of one another to prep for. Lot of work, but also a lot of fun!
Best of luck to my lovely colleague and chum, Olivia, who is off to London for the #BritishBookAwards , as she's shortlisted in the Best Bookseller category, for services in bookselling, managing our bookshop events, co-founding the #Edinburgh Womens Fiction Festival, and drinking huge amounts of tea. https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards
Writing a horror novella with a romance subplot made me realize... I haven't read any modern romance novels! Need to expand my horizon so I am super open to recommendations!
#Books | Comment savoir si un traitement fonctionne? Les labos inventent-ils les maladies? Le café est-il bon pour la santé? Plongez dans le monde complexe de la médecine: des cartes mentales, questions-réponses et illustrations pour mieux comprendre.
Another beautifully written entry into the Singing Hills cycle, but departing from the previous books' structural devices... or does it asks @chloroform_tea
Finde einen treffenden Hinweis auf unsere PostCovid Zeit (die Klimakrisenzeit, die Kriegszeit, die Zeit des radikalen Endzeitkapitalismus). Der Text stammt aus den Achtziger Jahren:
"Das ist vielleicht das grösste Problem von allen. Das Leben, so wie wir es kennen, hat aufgehört, und doch ist niemand in der Lage zu begreifen, was an seine Stelle getreten ist."
“It may be a very good sort of penitence in a vagabond, who has wasted the best time of his life, to go back then to decent people that he never was a credit to, and live upon them; but it’s not my sort. The best kind of amends then, for having gone away, is to keep away, in my opinion.”
This book was a banger. I really like the way Zahn writes Thrawn, in particular they way he writes his relationships with other. True art. #StarWars#Thrawn#bookstodon
I've been looking forward to this one and wasn't disappointed. It wasn't quite a five star read, but a solid four star bath read. Uplifting story, lovely characters, and of course, a fantastically snarky octopus who is the best part of the whole book; I loved him.
If only we all had smart, snarky octopi to solve our problems.
Read this on the ferry crossing to Islay. Perfect little book, with not a word out of place, examining all the choices that are available to us if we let ourselves be aware of them.
Would be a lovely pre-Christmas read, which is probably when I'll go back to it.