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Sarah Jio’s debut novel, The Violets of March, introduces readers to Emily Wilson, a writer who has spent several years at the top of her career and in love with life, but who years later finds that she is struggling with the end of her once perfect marriage, and having a devil of a time [...]
Back when I told you that Jen from Devourer of Books was hosting an audiobook week for June (Audiobook Month), I also promised that I would update my thoughts on audiobooks. I still really like them, but my listening to them has gone way down from last year because after engaging in something relatively new, [...]
If you are wondering where the reviews have been around this place, I can tell you that my review writing muse has taken a pretty extended vacation. I have built up a healthy list of titles that have inspired me to say things that I don’t know how to say. It’s had me thinking a [...]
Watch the full episode. See more Masterpiece. Last night, Masterpiece Mystery aired The Clocks, the second of the Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Series 6 movies. The series also includes Three Act Tragedy, and Hallowe’en Party. As part of the Cool Down with AC read/watch-along, I will also be watching a Miss Marple mystery a little [...]
That’s How I Blog! is my long missing talk show where I interview bloggers about what they read growing up, what’s on their bookshelves and how they fell into the world of blogging. It’s in a bit of transition as I try to figure out the best way to host it and where (it could [...]
In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing the which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! Alafair Burke, author of the novel Long Gone, played along and answered seven questions. Here is what Alafair had [...]
What do you get when you mix an isolated Kentucky road with a creepy lighthouse, a rambling old drunk, a troubled police officer, and a retreat for big cats? Well, one thing you get is Michael Koryta hitting his stride with The Ridge, his latest and maybe greatest thrilling supernatural mystery. Roy Darmus is at [...]
Ever since cutting the financial strings from her famous filmmaking father, Alice Humphrey has been struggling. Laid off from her job, it takes her months to find a new one without dad’s help. Alice counts herself a success when she starts managing a trendy art gallery in New York City’s Meatpacking District, with an artist [...]
Last night, Masterpiece Mystery aired Three Act Tragedy, the first of the Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Series 6 movies. The series will also include The Clocks, and Hallowe’en Party. As part of the Cool Down with AC read/watch-along, I will be viewing them as well as a Miss Marple mystery a little bit later in [...]
In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing the which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! Michael Robotham, author of the novel The Wreckage, played along and answered thirteen questions. Here is what Michael had [...]
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