Robert Barnard (1936 - 2013) is one of my favorite authors. He wrote about 50 novels between 1974 and 2012. Some were series books but a large number of his mysteries were standalones. I have rea...
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Even though I am getting my summary of reading for March 2024 out very late, I am happy because I have actually written reviews for six of the nine books I read. For me that is very good. And...
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The latest CLASSICS CLUB SPIN has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty books from my classics list. On SUNDAY, 21ST APRIL, 2024, the Classics Club will post a number from 1 through 20...
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I read THEY FOUND HIM DEAD by Georgette Heyer for the 1937 CLUB hosted by Simon at STUCK IN A BOOK and Karen at KAGGSY'S BOOKISH RAMBLINGS . And isn't this a lovely image for the club? THEY...
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Rex Stout's "DISGUISE FOR MURDER" is an 80-page story in the Nero Wolfe series. It is one of three stories in CURTAINS FOR THREE, published in 1950. The introduction to the book descr...
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I had not planned to review this book, but then I realized that this is a bookish book, with the plot revolving around authors, publishers, and accusations of plagiarism. Rex Stout gets to poke s...
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I read these books in March. Both were good books and very different stories. Each was challenging to read at times, and both were well worth the effort. MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON BY ELIZABETH STR...
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The story takes place over the course of one day in the life of Ki-Yong, a South Korean with a wife and teenage daughter. Except that he is really a North Korean spy who has been in Seoul...
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The SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION MEME is hosted by Kate at BOOKSAREMYFAVORITEANDBEST . The idea behind the meme is to start with a book and use common points between two books to end up with l...
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My husband purchased DOCTOROW: COLLECTED STORIES at the 2023 Planned Parenthood Book Sale, and at his suggestion, I read some short stories from that collection, which is comprised of fiftee...
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When I started reading THE GLASS HOTEL, I thought that Paul Smith and his half-sister Vincent Smith would be the central characters. As the story opens, they are in high school. Paul resents ...
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In early March, I read THE SILVER SWAN by Benjamin Black (pseudonym of John Banville). Set in Ireland in the 1950s, it is the 2nd book about Quirke, a pathologist working in a hospital in Dublin....
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"FORGIVENESS DAY" by Ursula K. Le Guin is a science fiction novella published in 1994, a part of Le Guin's Hainish cycle of books. I have not read any of the Hainish novels and I am not sure...
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It used to be that most of the books I read were published before 1975; I also read many books published from 1976 to 2000. A smaller percentage of the books I read were published aft...
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On Friday, March 8th, we attended the 76TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL ORCHID SHOW. It was a fantastic photography opportunity and most visitors were taking photos as they visited t...
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This book is the 25th in Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian series. Gregor Demarkian is a retired FBI profiler who spent many years tracking down serial killers. When he settles down in his old ...
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Recently I read another three stories in LEOPOLD'S WAY by Edward D. Hoch. I read the first five stories in the book in November 2023. See THIS POST for my thoughts on those stories and n...
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First two paragraphs of the book: > From late summer to early spring the next year, I lived at the > Morisaki Bookshop. I spent that period of my life in the spare�...
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This book was my read for the latest Classic Club Spin. I have been wanting to read more by Graham Greene and this was a great choice. This book was published in 1955 and the events in th...
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The SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION meme is hosted by Kate at BOOKSAREMYFAVORITEANDBEST . The idea behind the meme is to start with a book and use common points between two books to end up with links ...
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Susan at BLOGGIN' BOUT BOOKS is hosting the BOOKISH BOOKS READING CHALLENGE for the second year. The focus is on books about books... Any book counts as long as one of its main themes ...
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Description from the dust jacket: > When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the > secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for peop...
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I am participating in the JAPANESE LITERATURE CHALLENGE 17 hosted by DOLCE BELLEZZA. It runs from January through February, 2024. The goal is to read and review one or more books which w...
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Recently I have realized I have many short story anthologies and collections in ebook format on the Kindle, and I forget to read them. Today I am listing a few of them for my Short Story ...
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I read a FEW STORIES IN THIS BOOK IN NOVEMBER 2022 , and it took me over a year to return to it. WAVE ME GOODBYE is an anthology of stories about World War II; all the authors are women a...
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