Fixer by Edgar Kunz
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. The cover of Fixer, Edgar Kunz' second collection of published poems, features a worn lighter. It is obvious the lighter has been used frequently over a long period of time. The metal is tarnished; the image of a ship sailing on waves is worn. The old … [Read more]
The True Love Experience by Christina Lauren
StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 25: A book with two authors Felicity "Fizzy" Chen loves her life and career as a romance writer. The problem is that she's suffering from a bad case of writers' block, and when she's asked about her personal life in interviews or author panels, it's not like she … [Read more]
Run by Ann Patchett
On a snowy night, Bernard Doyle, the former mayor of Boston, drags his two adopted sons to a lecture by Jesse Jackson, Sr. Doyle is white and his sons, Tip and Teddy, are black, but Doyle is by far the most interested in Jackson's lecture. Tip would much rather be back in the ichthyology lab with … [Read more]
Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
In my love affair for both Historical Murder Mysteries and series whose books get progressively more brick-like the longer they go on, I tackled Sovereign, the third in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series. And I don't really regret that I did. Set this time in York during the great … [Read more]
It's A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder by Rosemary Martin
We all need harmless little fluff books in our lives, and this is one of the fluffiest. It's 1964 and 22 year old Elizabeth "Bebe" Bennett, recently out of secretarial school in Richmond, Virginia, is loving her new independent life in New York. A month out from her move from Richmond, Virginia, … [Read more]
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Yeah, the one about not knowing it and being doomed to repeat it? Well, here's exhibit number bajillion, Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. This likely sounds familiar to you: a man of ill repute, shady origin, and … [Read more]
