Glass of Blessing (NetGalley)Barbara Pymrelease date: January 22, 2013 (ebook) “Oh Wilmet, life is perfect now! [said Mary Beamish] I’ve got everything that I could possibly want. I keep thinking that it’s like a glass of blessings …”“That comes from a poem by George Herbert, doesn’t it? I said. ‘When God at first made man, …
A Red Herring Without Mustard Alan Bradley I have a real problem with mysteries. I don’t like them. Add to that the fact that I’m an Anglophile and my problem gets curiouser and curiouser–for who does mysteries better than the British? Miss Marple? No thank you. Poirot? I’ll pass. Sherlock Holmes? Not so much. And I …
11/22/63Stephen King “The past fought change because it was destructive to the future.” Never in my life did I think I’d read two Stephen King books in one year. You might remember that last spring my book club Chicks on Books read Full Dark No Stars … and that, surprising to me, I loved it. …
Full Dark, No Starsby Stephen King This read was a step out of my comfort zone in two ways: I don’t read Stephen King (or any kind of horror), and it was my first book on my Kindle app. Let’s get the Kindle app out of the way first. I am a former book store …
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bagby Alan Bradley It took me a more pages than I was comfortable with to admit I liked Alan Bradley’s first Flavia DeLuce novel, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I am not a murder-mystery fan, so that may have been part of it. Or maybe what kept …
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letterby Tom Franklin Post-Christmas open house found me sluggish, lounging on the sofa in my pj’s until 4 PM–and devouring Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter in a mere ten hours. Set in Mississippi in the early seventies and the present, the novel explores the lives of two men, one black, one …
Murder at the Watergateby Margaret Truman I may be the last reader on earth to try one of Margaret Truman’s Washington “Murder at …” series. A colleague who moved on to another job left it in a crate of books for me to use at school, and I snagged it at the end of the …
This is my symphony 