Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with 32 Books by Irish Authors Looking to add a little green to your reading list? In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a list of books by Irish writers from every county in Ireland. I haven’t read […]
A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is a behind-the-scenes look into the life of the woman with whom many of us feel a parasocial relationship. Beyond her velvet voice, steely determination and dogged persistence, […]
This One Didn’t Grab Me Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke My rating: 3 of 5 stars Vinyl Resting Place is the first volume in the Record Shop Mysteries series by Olivia Blacke. I’m sorry I didn’t love this one for several […]
A Visceral Tale of Grief. Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli TW: Suicide In Someday, Maybe, grief is a thing. A monster that sits on your chest and won’t let you breathe. Eve’s husband, Quentin (Q), takes his own life. She didn’t see […]
An exceptional cozy mystery set in post-WWII Paris Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge I read a lot of cozy mysteries, but Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge stood out as exceptional. This cozy mystery is […]
Well-paced cozy with Caribbean flavor Against the Currant: A Spice Isle Bakery Mystery by Olivia Matthews Against the Current is the first book in Olivia Matthews’ Spice Isle Bakery series. Lyndsay Murray opens a bakery in her Little Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn. […]
An Aptly Named Dark Domestic Thriller Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose is set in a small Irish village and revolves around three women and their husbands; Ciara is an Instagram influencer with millions of followers and a […]
Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings A Delightful Cozy in Of Manners and Murder is the first book in Anastasia Hastings’ Miss Hermione cozy mystery series. It was a delightful read, Quite unlike anything I’ve read before. Violet and her young […]
Title: The Enigma of Room 622Author: Joël DickerGenre: Mystery, Thriller Wow. This book is not like anything I’ve read before. So many threads – no telling where they’ll lead. Never where you think, for sure. It’s nearly 600 pages, but the payoff […]
Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions Escape into Meaning by Evan Puschak: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions Overall, I enjoyed this book of essays from Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter fame. For the most part, the reader’s interests […]