A couple of short book reviews today. First up, A Murder of Magpies by Judith Flanders.


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It seems ages since I last posted. It is ages! Easter and the school holidays seem to have got in the way of everything this month so my book count for April is going to be well down I suspect ( Read more... )

Two crime books to review today. First up, To Helvetica and Back by Paige Shelton.


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Time to catch up with several book reviews. Busy with the grandchildren over half-term and then a nasty cold most of this past week meant I was not really up to posting... or doing much at all to be honest. Apart from reading. Authors include Clifford D. Simak, Heather Young and Martin O'Brien.

First up, Way Station by Clifford D. Simak


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A quickish sort of review today... mainly because, while I enjoy them very much, I always find biographical, memoir type books hard to review.

Anyway, A Life in Questions by Jeremy Paxman.


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My Goodreads bookshelf tells me that I first saw The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert on that site in October of 2013. I added it as a 'Want to read' and here I am in 2017 finally getting around to it. Good job no one was holding their breath.


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A couple of crime titles to review today, the first by Georges Simenon and the second by Peter May.

First up, Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon.


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My second book for Bev's Mount TBR 2017 is The Haunted Library, edited by Tanya Kirk.


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I'd read a bit about Kick Kennedy in Wait For Me! by Deborah Devonshire, as Kick married her husband's elder brother, and since then have wanted to read more about the Kennedys in general, just not got around to it. Kick by Paula Byrne was one of Nan from Letters from a Hill farm's favourite books of 2016 and as Nan liked this book so much I ( Read more... )

My first book reviews for 2017 are two crime stories from series that I started last year or have been reading for a couple of years. Nice to start the year with two reliable authors.


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