Category: Book Reviews

Last year, Andy Serkis performed an eleven hour marathon reading of The Hobbit on YouTube to raise money for COVID relief efforts. Harper Collins, being an intelligent publisher, then paid him to perform a new, …

1970’s Mexico City is not for everyone. Students protest amid political unrest, while others just try to live their lives and keep going in an environment that is hardly stable. Maite is a secretary obsessed …

A haunted house resting on the bones of a dead woman in Japan is probably not the very best place for a wedding venue, but a group of thrill-seekers ignore the rumors of a ghost …

Bee-ing a good human isn’t always easy, but creator Ali Beckman is here to give readers a hint of serotonin from the world’s best pollinators. Bee a Good Human is full of insect related art …

Author Sophia Benoit is best known as a columnist and Twitter sensation, but the new essay collection Well, This is Exhausting is a delightful look at the pitfalls of modern womanhood. Benoit spent the early …

When I am sick, I turn to special cozy audiobooks as comfort listening. Here are recent favorites: Donna Andrews, Jana Deleon, Julie Seedorf, and Jeffrey Poole.

JP Brammer didn’t set out to become an advice columnist on gay hookup site, Grindr. In fact, growing up in Oklahoma, he found his homosexuality as hard as he could, while trying to figure out …

Donna Andrews, author of 28 (and counting) humorous mysteries about Meg Langslow and her small town of Caerphilly, VA, has written eight books set at Christmas*. The latest, The Gift of the Magpie, uses Christmas …

In The Case of the Ostentatious Otter by Jeffrey Poole, Zachary Anderson and his girlfriend, Jillian Cooper, take a vacation, along with their friends, Harry and Julie Watt to Monterey, CA. Soon after their arrival, …

As The Case of the Highland House Haunting by J.M. Poole opens, Zachary Anderson has now lived in Pomme Valley for several years . Zac’s pair of corgi detectives, Sherlock and Watson, become better detectives …