Crime and Poetry Series: Magical Bookshop #1 on April 5, 2016 Pages: 345 Add to Goodreads From Amanda Flower—who writes the national bestselling Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries as Isabella Alan—comes the first in the new Magical Bookshop Mystery series. Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother’s bedside, Violet Waverly… Read more »
A Killer Ball at Honeychurch Hall Series: Honeychurch Hall #3 on May 3, 2016 Pages: 304 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Murder at Honeychurch Hall, Deadly Desires at Honeychurch Hall When antique dealer Kat Stanford stumbles upon the partially mummified body of a young woman in an abandoned… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Childhood Characters You’d Love To Revisit As Adults Children’s books and even some adult books are brimming with wonderful child characters. Here are some characters I would love to revisit… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures – I mean books! My Week It was a relatively quiet week. I spent most of it working… Read more »
Challenges Title links go to reviews. Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge I’m rockin’ this!!! I read 25 books in April toward my year-end goal of 180 books. I’m currently at 57% of my yearly goal, or a total of 102 books — 43 books ahead of schedule! This month’s total includes 10 ARC or review copies,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The Hugo Awards finalists for 2016 have been announced. The Sad and Rabid Puppies managed to influence some of the categories pretty heavily, but… Read more »
Masks and Shadows on April 12th, 2016 Pages: 300 Add to Goodreads The year is 1779, and Carlo Morelli, the most renowned castrato singer in Europe, has been invited as an honored guest to Eszterháza Palace. With Carlo in Prince Nikolaus Esterházy’s carriage, ride a Prussian spy and one of… Read more »
The Blog Ahead Mini-Challenge is hosted by Anna of Herding Cats, Burning Soup, on her “The Herd Presents” website. It’s an opportunity to “blog ahead and up your number of scheduled blog posts.” Why I’m doing it. I may be deluding myself, because the next few weeks are crazy busy for me,… Read more »
I’ve signed up for the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge in May, hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Addicted to Happily Ever After: For the fourth year in a row during the month of May we will be challenging you to get those advanced reading copies read! These can be e-arc’s, finished copies, audio and… Read more »
In the Dragon’s Eye is where I share the books I’ve got my acquisitive eye on: the ones I’m really excited about and hope to read and perhaps add to the hoard. I also link to “Waiting On” Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Cover links take you… Read more »
