3.5 Stars. I’ve never read any of Elly Griffiths’ other mysteries but this one was good. I had a vague guess as to “whodunnit” but I didn’t really know why or how. There was a more personal twist at the end that did surprise me quite a bit. I like surprises. But somehow the whole novel felt a bit gray. DI Stephens seems to have […]
Welcome to my weekly update for January 18, 2016! I’ve dropped off for a couple of weeks again, but there hasn’t been too much to report on the book front anyway. It was my turn to download a brick of an audiobook that I’ve been waiting for at the library just after I started reading […]
Please link your reviews for the 2016 Books in Translation Reading Challenge here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’ll track my progress here. I’m aiming for the Beginner level. Please link to your review and not your blog home page. My suggested format is […]
Please link your reviews for the Southern Literature Reading Challenge 2016 here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’m signing up at the Sweet Iced Tea level, 4-5 books. I’ll track my progress here. Please link to the review and not your blog home page. […]
Please link your reviews for the 2016 Nonfiction Reading Challenge here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’m signing up at the Seeker level, 11-15 books. I’ll track my progress here. Please link to the review and not your blog home page. My suggested format […]
Welcome to my weekly update for January 4, 2016! I hope everyone had a safe, fun New Year! We took it pretty easy and just went out to eat on New Year’s Eve, watched a movie (The Gay Divorcee, an old Astaire/Rogers musical), then watched the ball drop. The rest of the weekend we mostly […]
I was scrolling through A Novel Challenge looking for new reading challenges for 2016 and I came across the 2016 Audiobook Challenge hosted at Hot Listens and The Book Nympho and the 2016 New Author Challenge hosted at Literary Escapism. I’ve done these challenges (or versions of them) in the past and recommend them. Anyway, […]
Or, in which I blather on endlessly about the books I read this year. Seriously, I like looking at my stats and putting out some genre favorites that might not have made it into my top ten list. The Stats I set my GoodReads goal at 75 books for the year but I finished up with 86. Okay, I haven’t finished #86 yet and it’s 6:47 […]
A sortable list of my 2016 book reviews
My top ten books read in 2015. I looked back at my top ten of 2014 and see that I wrote that it was just an average year. I’m happy to report that this year was better. These weren’t necessarily published in 2015 (and probably weren’t since I mostly read from my own library of older books) and I’ve tried to avoid listing […]
I was looking for a book featuring a private investigator to complete a reading challenge, so when I saw this was available (and that it was short–it’s the end of the year and time was running out), I jumped on it. I’ve never seen the movie and didn’t really have any idea what it was […]