Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I tend to read more British mystery than anything else, so this list is weighted heavily in that direction. I’ve also tried to… Read more »
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Ten Series To Try If You Love Agatha Christie
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books to Read if You Love/Hate This Super-Popular Book/Author. Agatha Christie is often called the Queen of British mystery. At the very least, she’s one of the grandes dames of classic British… Read more »
The Ten Authors I Most Want to Meet
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I love meeting authors, or at least getting a chance to hear them talk about their books. And I’ve been really lucky in… Read more »
News & Notes – 3/07/15
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Harper Lee tells persistent journalist to “Go away!” (Huffington Post) Children’s and YA Authors protest against the gendering of books. GalleyCat has a fairly… Read more »
My Top Ten Book Heroines
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. Wait, you want me to keep this down to a mere ten? You’ve got to be kidding me! OK, here are some of… Read more »
REVIEW: The Late Scholar, by Jill Paton Walsh
The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh Series: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane #4 Published by Minotaur Books on 6/17/14 Genres: British mystery, Historical Mystery, Mystery Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey – now a Duke – and his wife… Read more »
Striding Folly, by Dorothy L. Sayers (review)
Striding Folly contains three Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, each one different in character. The first, “Striding Folly”, has a dream element unusual in Lord Peter mysteries. The second, “The Haunted Policeman”, takes place immediately after the birth of Peter and Harriet’s first son, and involves a very clever hoax. “Talboys”… Read more »
Whose Body? (a Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery), by Dorothy Sayers (review)
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers Series: Lord Peter Wimsey #1 Published by Open Road Media on First publication: 1923. This edition: April 9, 2013 Genres: Mystery, British mystery Pages: 208 Format: Kindle or ebook Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads In the debut mystery in Dorothy L…. Read more »
Favorite British Mystery Authors (a series)
One of the genres I enjoy is mystery, and particularly British mystery. Five women dominated the “Golden Age” of British mystery: Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, and Margery Allingham. Of the five, Christie and Sayers are probably the best-known. Christie and Marsh enjoyed the longest reigns. Sayers… Read more »