I saw this one an couldn’t resist! I love collections of short stories, I love horror stories, and I love this title. Gutted: From Bram Stoker Award-nominated publisher, Crystal Lake Publishing, and the editing duo who brought you the best-selling and critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian horror anthology Shadows Over Main Street, comes Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories–a disturbing journey into the… Read more
First words… “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again.” Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier Read more
Death at Breakfast by Beth Gutcheon From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing, More Than You Know, and Gossip comes the first entry in a stylish and witty mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators—a shrewd novel of manners with a dark heart of murder at its center, set in small-town New England. Indulging their… Read more
Another cookbook! I follow Chrissy on Twitter – I love her no-fucks-to-give attitude and I love her food pics. Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Tiegen: Maybe she’s on a photo shoot in Zanzibar. Maybe she’s making people laugh on TV. But all Chrissy Teigen really wants to do is talk about dinner. Or… Read more
“‘Do your neighbors burn one another alive?’ was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec.” Anathem Neal Stephenson Read more
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
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Read more
My father bought some books online recently. Doesn’t seem all that unusual, really – he told me he was waiting for the package to get there, because he thought they should have arrived already. Then he said they were for sale on Amazon, but he’d bought them from the Kindle store “because they were cheaper.” Sure. But my dad doesn’t… Read more