“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.” – English author E. Nesbit They really aren’t the same, when you think about it. Sometimes I’m absorbed in the book; sometimes, the book is simply… Read more
A hardcover! <swoon> A man after my own heart. Read more
“Any resemblance to persons living or dead…” The disclaimer has a neat red line through it. A message she failed to notice when she opened the book. Sometimes a novel really speaks to you – really seems to hit home. You can see yourself and your struggle in those pages. But what if it really was you? What if someone… Read more
This one comes straight off of Tumblr – I wonder if I can get him to let his hair down and read to me? Read more
In Cane and Abe by James Grippando, Miami’s top prosecutor becomes the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance. Is she the victim of a serial killer? Or is there a connection to the women in Abe’s past? Abe Beckham is a prosecutor in Miami, married to the lovely Angelina but still hung up on his first wife, Samantha. The relationship… Read more
I’m not sure what Alexander Skarsgard is reading here – one of the True Blood books, maybe? – but I wouldn’t mind curling up in a hammock with him to read it. Read more
There are always quite a few murder mysteries in my TBR pile, so only the really good ones stand out. Orient by Christopher Bollen is definitely in that pile – I have to admit that I did not guess the murderer until the very end, and I certainly didn’t guess the motive. I like it when a book can surprise me.… Read more
Wreckage by Emily Bleeker Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the… Read more
I am becoming a Dennis Lehane groupie – that’s all I can say. I loved The Drop. I loved Live By Night. And I loved the final book in the Joe Coughlin trilogy, World Gone By. This was a story that really drew me in, the kind of book where you keep re-reading pages, going back to an earlier section… Read more
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Scout Finch, character in the classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Read more