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Cottage at Glass BeachAuthor: Michael Stanley Publisher: Harper Paperback, April 30, 2013 Genre: Detective Fiction/Police Procedural My Rating: A In September 2011 I told you about Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley. (Click the title for my review.) I loved it and especially Kubu, the main character. And now, the authors have created a fourth book in [...]
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Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while.
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Author: Michael Connelly Publisher: Little, Brown, and Co., Nov. 2012 Genre: Mystery/Police Procedural My Rating: A The Black Box is Michael Connelly’s latest book featuring Harry Bosch. For those of you who don’t know him, Harry is a detective working for the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s not a super-macho cop who goes around shooting [...] Author: John Grisham Publisher: Doubleday, 2008 Genre: Legal Thriller My Rating: A I set a goal for myself for 2013. I promised myself I would try to write my own summary of every book I review this year. When it came to this book, The Appeal, I really did try. The plot is very complicated [...] A couple of weeks ago a friend took several vacation days from work so she and her daughter (along with nieces and cousins) could spend days making ravioli – hundreds of them. It’s a tradition they’ve done every year a few weeks before Easter. A friend of my mom’s used to do the same with [...] Author: T.C. Boyle Publisher: Viking, 1995 Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: A You are going to find me conflicted on this book. On one hand I loved the book and am so glad I read it. On the other hand, I disliked all the people in it and found them to be almost cartoonish in [...] Author: Rebecca Stead Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, 2009 Genre: Young Adult Fiction Award Won: Newberry Medal Winner, 2010 My Rating: A Miranda is a twelve-year-old girl in New York City in the 1970s. She loves to read. Her favorite book is Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time. She loves it so much that she carries [...] Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Mystery My Rating: A I’m a little over a third of the way through my quest to read all 87 of Agatha Christie’s novels and, frankly, I’ve been dragging in my enthusiasm to do so. Then, I found this ebook that is a nice overview of Agatha Christie’s [...] Author: Karen Cushman Publisher: Clarion Books, 1996 Genre: Historical Fiction My Rating: A I have a fondness for books that have won or been nominated for the Newberry Award. These awards are given by the American Library Association annually for the most distinguished children’s books. Most of the books I’ve read and loved are aimed for [...] Author: Susan Elia MacNeal Publisher: Bantam Books, 2012 Genre: Mystery/Historical Fiction My Rating: A I’d like to introduce you to a new story star today. If this were a TV series, the casting would have to be perfect. This new story star, Maggie Hope, is super-smart, especially in mathematics, good at analyzing people, and she [...] I know I am way behind the times, but I have just discovered John Sandford and his two great detectives, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers. It’s as if I’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, because these are two especially good mystery series. In case you’ve also been hiding under a rock, let me tell [...] |
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