Joyfully Retired

Wan Chai was the part of Hong Kong that never slept. The place where anything could happen and anything could be had for the right price. Anything. Those teaser sentences are from Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly. It’s a great mystery/thriller. For more teaser sentences, visit MizB at Should Be Reading. I’m with Detective Harry [...]

It’s Tuesday  . . .  Where are you? I’m in New England with a boy (approximately 12-13) whose father just doesn’t understand him. They don’t get along at all. Because of his grandfather’s will, he and his dad are forced to live in a Bed and Breakfast with a whole cast of quirky characters. Visit [...]

Tuesday is the day I throw out a few sentences and try to tempt you into reading one of the books I’m reading. This is sponsored by MizB at Should Be Reading. The children had been carted over to their grandmother’s apartment for the evening, and so the only sound I heard when I came back [...]

It’s Tuesday  . . .  Where are you? I’m right here in the US snooping at the emails and letters of two women who have been friends since childhood.  Well, that is, until something came between them and they haven’t spoken in years.  The one thing they have that links them together is their own [...]

Teaser Tuesday is the day I throw out a few sentences and try to tempt you into reading one of the books I’m reading. And then we get to the room in the back, which was once shared by the three Hsu girls. We were all childhood friends. And now they’ve all grown and married [...]