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I'm currently reading "Engaging The Earl" by Mandy Goff. It's the sequel to "The Blackmailed Bride" which I read a few weeks ago. Both are light reads, but enjoyable!
The Blackmailed Bride
Engaging the Earl
Aleksander wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "NOT A COZY!Blacktop Wasteland is where author S.A. Cosby's Beauregard 'Bug' Montage earned his reputation as a high-speed wheelman and ri...
I've seen this book around and thought it seemed interesting. Would you recommend giving it a shot even if its different from what you usually read?"
That's hard to say, Aleksander, because the language and the violence is pretty strong, which would put some readers off. Having said that, I think it's very true of the life that these people were leading, which makes it depressing, because it's hard to see a way out. But it is certainly exciting and well-written.
Check some other reviews as well as mine - might give you a better idea! I borrowed it from the library, which meant I could choose not to finish it if it was too much for me.
William Faulkner was a giant of American Literature (with a capital L!), and I just enjoyed his short story A Rose for Emily. It's about an elderly widow who gets more and more reclusive and peculiar.
4★ Link to my Rose for Emily review with a link to the story.
Another cute Story Without Words, Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words by Karl Beckstrand. I can imagine little kids making up dialogue and "telling the stories" themselves.
4★ LInk to my review of Polar Bear Bowler with enough of the pictures to get the idea of the story.
I often considering the Gaslight Mysteries cozies, but
Murder in Murray Hill by Victoria Thompson was pretty dark to be considered a cozy. Still very good and worth reading.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Summoner had a pretty free rein in 14th century England. He could decide you were guilty of something and summon you to court - unless of course you bribed him. And he never paid for anything. Who would dare charge him? In The Summoner's Sins, author Keith Moray continues his series, which is pretty gruesome.
3★ Link to my review of The Summoner's Sins
I finished a light romantic suspense novel: In the Bodyguard's Arms
by Lisa Childs.My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished an excellent book of action-packed short stories: The Smoking Gun Sisterhood
by Thad Brown.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I also finished my review of Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
by Nancy Springer. This book brings together Sherlock Holmes and his much younger sister Enola in a teen / young adult historical mystery set in London and Surrey in 1889.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am reading A Wicked Conceit
by Anna Lee Huber. Love this series. This one pulled me right in. I recommend starting from book 1 though. Set in 1832 Edinburgh.
I just enjoyed NZ/Aussie author Jacqueline Bublitz's new mystery, narrated by a murdered girl, that should stir up some good book club conversations, Before You Knew My Name.
3.5~4★ Link to my review of Before You Knew My Name
After many years, I loved my second reading of a favourite, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won author Mark Haddon many awards. Young Christopher is a persistent, special, very trying kid. Love him!
5★ Link to my Curious Incident ... review
I finished a mystery If Shadows Could Tell: an Aurora Steller mystery novel
by Granthana Sinha.My 3.5 star review rounded to 3 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I’ve also been pecking away at 100 Classic Short Stories, the anthology I am determined to finish this year. Four stories read this week, so I have fewer than twenty to go. I need to read 2-3 each month — easy-peasy, right? 😐
Got one middle grade mystery in this week:
Bear Bottom by Stuart Gibbs https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Heather L wrote: "Non-cozy reading for this week included all five books in the “Spiderwick Chronoicles” by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. Fun fantasy/adventure series! (Middle grade/..."Lol! Yeah... not like you have anything else to do Heather ;)
I am reading The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II
by Madeline Martin. Set in 1939 London. Good so far. My first book with this author.
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Heather L wrote: "Brenda — Uh-huh...and I’m already overBOOKED for June. 😀"I know exactly what you mean Heather!!!! Fun...
Valentine is a debut by Elizabeth Wetmore about the dangers for all the women in the West Texas oil country where men are men and women are there to serve.
3.5★ Link to my review of Valentine
Aussie author Paul Starr has used his own experiences as inspiration for Prior Regrets. Does Mark Prior, a young backpacker from England have regrets two decades after his stay in Israel?
3★ Link to my review of Prior Regrets
I finished A Drink Before the War
by Dennis Lehane.My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind by Amanda M. Fairbankshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A rare week with two non-cozies for me:
21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Evil for Evil by James R. Benn https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Palace of Lost Memories
now reading the next book of the series The Echo of Broken Dreams
by C.J. Archer
I finished a short story with a strong female protagonist: Hot Sun, Hot Lead
by Thad Brown.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This children's book (yes, children's book) introduces kids to drag queen RuPaul! It's a new one in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara, who has produced countless inspirational biographies that even grown-ups can learn from.
4★ Link to my review of RuPaul with several illustrations to entertain you.
Ten-year-old Rae is home alone in Aussie author Emily Spurr's moving debut novel, A Million Things. Kids are canny creatures, and Rae is one I am sure will be remembered.
4★ Link to my review of A Million Things
Here is my review of a romantic suspense novel: Secret Enemy
by Katie Reus.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them is just what it says it is. Francine Prose is a highly regarded literary authority who knows her stuff, but isn't stuffy. She also knows how to poke fun at herself.
5★ Link to my review of Reading Like a Writer
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