Month: November 2019
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Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can See
Black Friday has dawned exactly as its name suggests. Gloomy, dark, drizzle…uh. It has been a horrible week and I am so glad it is over! In the continuing saga of ‘Is it the flu or pneumonia?’ I can now tell you officially it is pneumonia. OU Boy came in Wednesday afternoon and promptly passed […]
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WORD TO THE WISE by JENN McKINLAY
A Library Lover’s Mystery Number 10 This is the tenth book in this series and it just keeps getting better! In Briar Creek, Lindsey Norris, library director, and part-time sleuth should be happily planning her wedding to Sully. Instead, she is dealing with a newcomer to town who has the ladies feeling a bit prickly! […]
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Gratitude turns what we have into enough. Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Wednesday! I’m sure the markets are packed with last-minute shoppers for tomorrow’s Thanksgiving feasts! Since OU Boy has the flu and it is awful, we aren’t doing any huge thing this year. Being grateful that the Native Americans gave us refugees dinner that one time before we slaughtered them all and now will feed […]
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THE KILL CLUB by WENDY HEARD
Jazz is a bad-ass. She’s had a hard life and now she is doing everything in her power to protect her little brother from their foster mother, Carol, a religious nutjob who decides the boy doesn’t need his diabetic medication as God is going to heal him. As Jazz takes on beatings and sneaks the […]
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BROKE: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises by Jodie Adams Kirshner
Originally posted on Pirate Patty Reviews:
The author has taken a hard look at the state of affairs in Detroit. Through the voices of seven people whose lives have been changed forever by the mismanagement of the city and its eventual bankruptcy. I visited Detroit regularly during the late ’80s and through the ’90s. It… -
THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB by DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS
Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face… It’s 1991 and Heather, her best friend Becca and their two other friends are obsessed with serial killers, and all things macabre. Becca is the storyteller of the group and comes up with some seriously scary tales. But the one keeps coming back. The Red Lady. […]
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DEATH with DOSTOEVSKY by KATHERINE BOLGER HYDE
A Crime with the Classics Mystery #4 Professor Emily Cavanaugh is back at Bede College, not as a Professor, but on sabbatical and trying to work on her book on Dostoevsky. On her first day in the library, Emily runs into a former student, Daniel Razumov, and his girlfriend Sveta. Daniel is also researching Dostoevsky […]
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NET FORCE DARK WEB by JEROME PREISLER (Series Created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik)
The return of the cutting-edge thriller series Net Force, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Jerome Preisler. The first thing you need to know is this book is about 700 pages long! There are multiple characters, plots, sub-plots concerning our nation’s cyber safety. The President wants to go full out on Net […]
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Puddin’ on the Blitz by Tamar Myers
A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery The success of Magdalena Yoder’s new Amish-Asian restaurant is threatened by murder in the deliciously quirky new Pennsylvania-Dutch mystery. A murder mystery with an Amish/Mennonite theme. The Story: Magdalena Yoder is Mennonite and married to a Jew. Her mother-in-law is a piece of work and lives across the street with the […]
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the last affair by Margot Hunt
Love may be blind, but obsession’s a real killer. From the title, I got the idea that this was going to be someone’s final affair. And it was. Nora is married to a distant alcoholic and is miserable. She is sick and tired of her husband. Josh is married to a psychopath. And he has […]
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