Archive for July, 2010

Book Review: Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin

Who Killed the Curate? Joan Coggin The Rue Morgue Press, 2001 ISBN 0915230445 Trade Paperback It’s Christmas 1937 and the small English village of Glanville is gearing up for the festivities. Central to the villages activities is Lady Lupin, the lovely scatterbrained wife of Andrew, vicar of St. Marks Parish. Lady Lupin, having come from [...]

July 31, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Einstein’s Tongue–My Friend the Mangaka (manga creator):

Hello, dear reader, if you’re there. I’d like to dedicate this blog to a friend of mine, specifically because she’s asked me to help her with something she’s been working on. I hope we know what a manga is. Yes? I hope so, cause otherwise this might not make perfect sense to you. I’ll give [...]

July 30, 2010   Posted in: Einstein's Tongue  No Comments

The Book I Can’t Wait For

How excited do you get about books coming out?  Do you wait anxiously, hoping against hope there won’t be any delay by the publisher because the release date has been fixed in your mind for months? Such a book for me is Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, due to be released August 24th.  The final book [...]

July 29, 2010   Posted in: Tales of a Bookseller  3 Comments

Book Review: Storm Prey by John Sandford

Storm Prey John Sandford G. P. Putnam’s Sons, May 2010 ISBN 9780399156496 Hardcover Surgeon Weather Karkinnen doesn’t think anything about the guy she saw in the elevator one morning on her way to work, a scheduled separation of conjoined twins.  Unfortunately for her, that man is directly connected to the pharmacy robbery, the one that [...]

July 28, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

The Audacity of Authors

Returning guest blogger Sunny Frazier, whose first novel in the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries, Fools Rush In, received the Best Novel Award from Public Safety Writers Association, explains why ego is part of an author’s make-up. sunny69@comcast.net http://www.sunnyfrazier.com While attending a recent writers conference I overheard a woman say “That author’s ego is  really out [...]

July 27, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  18 Comments

Book Review: Every First Saturday by Bobby Jaye Allen

Every First Saturday Bobby Jaye Allen Accolade Books, 2002 ISBN 0971208204 Trade Paperback Set in a small college town in Ohio, this is a tale of the murder of the campus golden girl during the week before Homecoming.  Cy Sweetly seemed to have it all—beauty, charisma, brains, a future of wealth and fame, but there [...]

July 26, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Turtle in Paradise Jennifer L. Holm Random House Books for Young Readers, May 2010 ISBN 0375836888 Hardcover Times are tough in Depression-Era America. Eleven-year-old Turtle’s Mom keeps losing housekeeper jobs and getting her heart broken by no-good men. When her Mom gets a job with an old lady who doesn’t like children, she has no [...]

July 25, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Sniff

As I write this, it’s Friday night but I’ll post this Saturday morning. It’s time for me and Janis to say goodbye to Annie.   In the last several days, we’ve driven 14 hours to get here, a couple of hours longer than it should have been because of a flat tire.  I’ve replaced two tires [...]

July 24, 2010   Posted in: Tales of a Bookseller  No Comments

Mining the Past

Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. She has published a number of mysteries [...]

July 23, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  3 Comments

Book Review: The Legatus Mystery

The Legatus Mystery Rosemary Rowe Headline Book Publishing, 2005 ISBN 9780747265208 Mass Market Roman citizen I might be – indeed I was born a nobleman in my own tribe – but I was also an ex-slave and a tradesman, and the gulf between myself and Marcus was as great as that between me and the [...]

July 22, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments