A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All by Luke Dempsey This is a entertaining memoir of an ex-pat Brit who lives in New York City and discovers birding as an adult. ‘Aww, you say, sounds like a nice story,’ and it is. All is not rosy and cozy, …
A Full Dark House: A Bryant & May Mystery and Seventy-Seven Clocks: A Bryant & May Mystery, both by Christopher Fowler – the first and second in the series about London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. The author uses an ingenious method of flashbacks and contemporary narrative in the first book to relate the unit’s first case …
I should have published this awhile back, but I’ve been on blog hiatus for some time now. I’m making up for lost time.Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen – First in the Lady Georgiana mysteries, 1930’s London. Lots of fun with this young, royally-connected lass who’s broke but determined to make it on her own. …
I am fortunate to be able to read more than one book at a time — not to say simultaneously (but wouldn’t that be cool?) — as long as they are from sufficiently different genres. At the moment, I’m still slowly making my way through How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin …
I’ve written a few very small reviews of some of the books I’ve read, mostly mysteries, of course. Instead of duplicating, I’ll just give the link for those on LibThing and let you read them there. If you haven’t checked out LibThing, I urge you to take a look. It’s more than a book cataloging …
