2023-09-18 02:46
I’ve decided–after all–that I just might need a break from my reading “challenge” of the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Seriously, I just finished The Woma… Read More
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2023-09-09 05:05
Finally ordered all the Lord Peter Wimsey books I needed to own the whole of Dorothy L. Sayers' series. Though, I have to mention, I passed on the short story collections. Nonetheless, I was… Read More
2023-09-07 00:00
2023-09-02 14:39
While I "dedicated" August to tackling some of the books featured in the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time list, it is now September and probably time to move on. Part of me wants to push f… Read More
2023-08-21 22:42
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2023-08-20 15:25
It's about time. We've been waiting since 2021's release of Ice and Stone for the next Sharon McCone mystery. Welp. Here it is... (Amazon affiliate link below)Release Date: April 23, 2024&nb&hell…Read More
2023-08-14 22:12
First, I have to be super clear. This video is pretty much obsolete at this point. I happened to have filmed it right behind my last video and have since then tried to read The Big Sleep for… Read More
2023-08-10 22:59
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2023-07-23 20:11
I had zero business buying all these Mercedes Lackey books I found in a used bookstore out of town. But, as we all see, I bought them anyway. Mercedes Lackey isn’t even all that… Read More
2023-07-19 12:00
2023-07-17 23:40
Many got to stay. Many had to go. I got a huge summer
shelf unread books detox going on strong right here. So sick of hanging on to
books year after year; I did a fairly complete shelf detox… Read More
2023-06-26 12:00
2023-06-16 12:00
I went to this amazing out of town discount bookstore Tuesday to do what I do when it comes to used bookstores–scour EVERY shelf for hidden and rare treasures. And this visit did not d… Read More
2023-06-15 23:50
This is going to be interesting. LGBTQ. Space Opera. Drama. Princes. Romance. And sinister, conniving villains. At least I think these two books have that much in common. Regardless, I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-06-07 13:00
2023-06-05 22:05
Bought. Books. Again. Anyway. Children Classics. Fantasy Romance. Sci-Fi Horror. Political Thriller.
2023-05-30 11:00
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2023-05-14 02:56
Looks like J. D. Robb's In Death series are getting a makeover next year. Check out the cover art for Random in Death, release on January 23, 2024.Do you like it? Read More
2023-05-11 09:48
While the truth is I was more or less moved by my completing of reading The Way of Kings back in October, I still wanted (at some time or another) to give Brandon Sanderson’s The Storm… Read More
2023-05-10 10:55
2023-05-10 01:26
Here it is and here I go. Finally, finally doing a rereading (because I’m not great at doing so). Though this is a twenty-years-later type of rereading. While I won’t get into al… Read More
2023-05-04 10:57
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2023-02-22 22:57
(Amazon affiliate link)"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs… Read More
2023-02-15 17:09
2023-02-14 00:20
I finally, finally bought a Wacom One beginners drawing tablet! Now I just must learn how to draw something in the digital realm. Old millennials problems, I guess. It’s just har… Read More
2023-02-12 03:35
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2023-02-08 05:18
Of courseeeeeeeeee, J. D. Robb’s new release, Encore in Death, would be on this list. Of course, chile. Of course. Nevertheless, Eve Dallas’ latest case has us readers falling in… Read More
2023-02-07 05:23
Spent an afternoon at the café “studying” my way through my long-term journey reading The Feeling Good book by David D. Burns, MD. An absolute GREAT book that looks at tre… Read More
2023-02-05 14:00
2023-02-02 00:37
"In sleepy, rural North Wales, Frankie Gibbs, a recently laid off, aimless twenty-year-old on Universal Credit, wants nothing more than to keep his younger brother out of the care syst… Read More
2023-01-25 14:00
"Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson's desperate attempt to regain digging rights backfires—and his dream of unearthi… Read More
2023-01-25 01:05
"Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to gi… Read More
2023-01-23 14:00
Images are Amazon affiliate links to the bookCHAPTER ONEAmber hopped down from a haphazard pile of driftwood and peered off across Lake Michigan, watching the sunset spill its reds and orang… Read More
2023-01-19 14:00
So I'm writing this post while listening to Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes." The song is befitting my mood–seeing as I'm trying to decide if I want to read the final Amelia Peabody mystery… Read More
2023-01-18 19:46
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2023-01-04 14:00
Just a general heads up since we’re talking about Black women writing mysteries–per my last post on Tracy Clark. We have two pieces coming up in the first two months of 2023 (tha… Read More
2023-01-03 19:25
"When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles.Detective Harriet Foster is on the cas… Read More
2023-01-02 01:01
2022-12-27 00:43
Okay. Okay. Okay. So, Anita Blake and I have beefed back and forth for years. I stopped reading the series for a few years, jumped back on, stopped again, and recently decided to jump back o… Read More
2022-12-17 00:27
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2022-12-10 00:08
"A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts… Read More
2022-12-09 00:14
Carolyn G. Hart's Honeymoon with Murder and A Little Class on Murder are books numbers four and five of her award-winning Death on Demand series. Death on Demand itself is a mystery-themed b… Read More
2022-11-29 14:00
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You can purchase an Eternal Sailor Moon S.H. Figuarts yourself on Amazon via my affiliate link HERE. "Towels Channels Branigan" serving tray is featured on my Society6 store HERE Read More
2022-11-26 00:22
Lately, all this talk about Robert Jordan has put me in the mood to check out that one copy of his Reagan O’Neal Fallon books my library has to offer. While I’ve always seen/hear… Read More
2022-11-23 14:00
John W. James and Russel Friedman’s The Grief Recovery Handbook came into my reading life via some conspicuous means a few years ago. There’s a story behind all that–as you… Read More
2022-11-21 14:00
November 15th (which was this past Tuesday) marks a full year since I finished and closed my reading of the final book in The Wheel of Times series, A Memory of Light. Still remember that da… Read More
2022-10-28 00:33
2022-10-28 00:15
"It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Viole… Read More
2022-10-09 17:58
2022-10-06 12:00
"Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glan… Read More
2022-10-05 21:43
"Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide i… Read More
2022-09-23 12:00
I'm officially calling it. After attempting to read the second-to-the-final book in Madelyn Alt's bewitching cozy mystery series, I've decided I can not take on the penultimate entry nor the… Read More
2022-09-19 12:00
3 Tips for Increasing Your Exposure as an Artist~ Guest Post by Ian Garza of Big On BalanceGetting your work discovered is a life-changing experience, but boosting the visibility of you… Read More
2022-09-17 00:46
SOMEBODY COME OVER HERE AND STOP ME! Dude, listen. I am STILL on this “reaching to reclaim urban fantasy” nostalgic reading kick.Even though half the books I have attempted to re… Read More
2022-09-13 21:43
Tuesday seemed like a day for some minor retail therapy. It appears the stars have aligned for some small, small fortunes.I went to Gamestop early in the afternoon looking for some of those… Read More
2022-09-09 23:53
"New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely de… Read More
2022-09-08 23:12
"When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictabl… Read More
2022-09-08 21:39
"Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she’s been hired by… Read More
2022-09-03 00:31
In all my latest desires to dive back into reading urban fantasy, I've finally fallen onto my copy of Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older. It's the first book in this Bone Street Ru… Read More
2022-08-31 14:51
"Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until a two-bit perp's savage assault left her dead for two minutes. When she comes to in the hospital, she sees things that can only be descr… Read More
2022-08-31 13:48
In my recent travels to help satiate this nostalgic need to read urban fantasy books–per my discovery of the genre in 2007–I have finally read Seanan McGuire's Rosemary and Rue… Read More
2022-08-28 15:31
"The Fallen Gods' War drove the remnants of a victorious army across the ocean in search of a new homeland. A thousand years later, the lifeless continent of Draegora is largely forgotten, a… Read More
2022-08-27 03:02
... Lastest pyschologically thriller, The Wife Before, has been out. I'm late to have gotten my copy, but I have it (can't keep up with everything, man). The synopsis reads as (accordi… Read More
2022-08-23 19:43
Freakin' WOWZERS on this DNF–as of now–experience. I landed on The Sheepfarmer’s Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion Trilogy, Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon. The experience didn… Read More
2022-08-22 20:18
"When Aoleyn loses her parents, she is left to fend for herself among a tribe of vicious barbarians. Bound by rigid traditions, she dreams of escaping to the world beyond her mountain home.T… Read More
2022-08-07 21:22
Here we are a year later with the second Inspector Anjelica Henley book, The Binding Room, by UK author, Nadine Matheson. The book came out a few weeks ago in July, but right on time as it f… Read More
2022-06-16 20:07
2022-06-07 23:38
This 1974 gem came in the mail today. I’ve been hunting it down for about five months now, unable to commit to the usual $79-$100 price tag this sucker usually costs on second-hand sit… Read More
2022-06-07 23:13
2022-05-15 19:14
We got a coverrrrrrr for 2/2023 J. D. Robb book. This is an Amazon affiliate link to the book Read More
2022-05-10 21:18
2022-05-04 13:00
Her and I didn't always get along. But I've learned to love her. And she has learned to trust me. Well, you know what I mean. The point is that my pre-order for Sara Paretsky's 22nd V. I. Wa… Read More
2022-05-03 21:31
2022-05-03 21:23
I don't know how I managed this (besides jumping right into my coffee and reading after work at 6am each day), but I managed to clean house with three Mercedes Lackey trilogy readings. It be… Read More
2022-04-18 21:24
Amazon Affiliate LinkSaturday 4/2/2022 9:53am. Just finished the first 50 pages of Anne Bishop's Daughter of the Blood. "Okay" so far. Lots of hell and Satan and demon talk. Though expressed… Read More
2022-04-05 16:50
Taken from my new journaling about books… I’m doing some whacking this year. Whacking books. Don't work: It's out. Work: You stay. Slowly trying to keep from buying too many boo… Read More
2022-03-31 18:35
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