I’ve got a bunch of new books to talk about – and a backlog of reviews to get posted! Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy… Read more

Here’s another one I picked up on an impulse. It’s on my Kindle, so this will be one of my vacation reads, I think. A Beautiful Poison Poison by Lydia Kang: Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her close circle, young… Read more

This was a gift from my favorite cousin, Ann. Off course she’s my favorite – she buys me books! Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain: Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession… Read more