Lesa's Book Critiques
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Book reviewer, Library Journal mystery columnist, book blogger & librarian. Sharing Books and Authors, with an emphasis on Mysteries.
Lesa's Book Critiques
8h ago
It took a couple powerful women in the media to point out to Ina Garten what my mother told me long ago. In her memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten said she gave a speech in which she said she had always been lucky. Oprah and Lesley Stahl both shot her down, saying ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
2d ago
J.D. Robb’s sixtieth “In Death” novel, Bonded in Death, is due out on Feb. 4. That makes it perfect timing to share Kevin Tipple’s review of the fifty-third in the series, Forgotten in Death. Thank you, Kevin. It is late May 2061 as Forgotten in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel by J. D. Robb begins.begins ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
3d ago
Thank you, Glen, for sending us your list of favorite books read in 2024. I look forward to your comments every Thursday because I always find something to smile at in your pithy remarks. Thanks for sharing this list with us. This year, for whatever reason, I decided to try to catch up on all ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
4d ago
How are you doing this week? I hope the fires stayed away, Mark. I hope the rest of you are staying warm. It was 6 degrees here when I got up yesterday morning. Six degrees! That’s way too cold for this warm weather person. I left the house twice this week, and that’s it. Not ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
5d ago
If there’s anything that can get me out of a reading slump, it’s a good book of essays. I have to thank Bev for mentioning Sean Dietrich’s new book, Tomato Sandwiches are Eaten Over the Sink. Everything she said last Thursday about this book is correct. The collection of essays about people and life in ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
5d ago
In the tenth book in Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series, The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime, the author packs up bookstore owner Gemma Doyle and her friends and sends them to London. You would think West London, Massachusetts would be quiet without Gemma and her crew, but her Uncle Arthur easily ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
1w ago
I liked the premise of Melissa Larsen’s novel, The Lost House, but she lost me with her protagonist. Agnes Glin was too troubled for me to appreciate her story. She’s terrified, lonely, and an addict, not my kind of character. In 1979, long before she was born, Agnes’ grandmother and infant aunt were murdered in ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
1w ago
It had been a while since I read one of Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St. Mary’s, so I went to her blog when I finished the sthort story (really a novella), Lights! Camera! Mayhem! I wasn’t at all surprised to find that Terry Pratchett had referred a reader to her books before he died. The ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
1w ago
I always look forward to the mystery collections by Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart, and Liz Ireland. Their collections contain three novellas with a common theme, a holiday or a food. This time, it’s Irish Soda Bread Murder in time for St. Patrick’s Day. But, the stories surprised me. I’m usually eager to read Liz Ireland’s ..read more
Lesa's Book Critiques
1w ago
Thanks to MM Jones for today’s list of Favorite Books read in 2024. It’s fun to see what others have enjoyed during the reading year. I’m sure others will enjoy the list, too. Category – DEBUT Sleeping in the Sun by Joanne Howard Two visitors arrive at a home in India where an American missionary ..read more