I’m a sucker for fiction about books and bookstores so to find a novel about them that is also set in Denver, Colorado (where I lived and still have family living) means I didn’t have any choice but to read Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore. Add in the fact that in the first ten pages, Lydia, a kindhearted bookseller, discovers Joey, one of her favorite misfit ... Read More...
The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
In the present Kate’s father is succumbing to dementia. As his memory flickers on and off, she wants to give his life’s work meaning and so takes his enormous and beloved stamp collection to an appraiser to see if any of the stamps are valuable. In the past, Kristoff is an orphaned artist working as an apprentice for the renowned master stamp engraver, Frederick Faber. ... Read More...
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Just in time for vacation reading! Noah Hawley's suspenseful mystery is being released in paperback- which is even better because it makes for easier transport to the beach/pool/porch/hammock/wherever you get to hang out and read in the summer. True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected, but from ... Read More...
Burntown: A Novel
When you are eight-years-old the lines between what is real and what is imagined can still get blurred. So, it might be difficult for Miles to explain to police that he saw a man wearing a chicken mask kill his mother. Except that his statement isn’t even needed—the mask is found in the family’s garage and his father is booked on a murder charge. He commits suicide in ... Read More...
Into the Water: A Novel
Somehow I ended up reading two books recently on the same esoteric subject—witch hunting in England in the 1600s. Earlier this week I reviewed The Witchfinder’s Sister and now I’m back with Into the Water, Paula Hawkins’s new novel. The title is a reference to the test of tying a woman to a chair and dropping her in a pond. If she sinks, she’s innocent. If she floats, ... Read More...
5 Star Week: The Takedown
This doesn't happen very often, OK, never now that I think about it, but this week I have not one, not two, but three 5 star books that make me all evangelical. Only today's is a new release, but beyond that all three cover a diverse range of reading that will bring on the book love! But I did always say there were only two ways to emerge from high school. ... Read More...
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