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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

A Monstrous Regiment of Women: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Oh, this book is SO GOOD! I really liked the first book in this series (see below) and I love this one — what a great wrtier Laurie King is. Smart, funny, quick, with incredible focus. THANK YOU Laurie King!

Things The Grandchildren Should Know

I’d never heard of Mark Oliver Everett. If I were a really hip music fan, I would know he was the lead singer of the Eels. I would know who the Eels were. But I have a hip, music-y friend who is truly great person and a fellow reader so that’s how I got this […]

Leap Into Darkness

Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

I really love memoirs, but they’re a crapshoot now because they’re so very popular in this blogging age. That is to say, LOTS of them get published and they’re not all worth reading. This cover and title had me worried, but I was intrigued by the idea of a faithful but wacky Mormon living in […]

The Beekeepers Apprentice

First in a series (yippee!), gives us Sherlock Holmes at the other end of his career, supposedly retired to a staid life of countryside beekeeping. 15-year old orphan Mary Russell literally stumbles across him and begins a true meeting of the minds. Mary becomes the beekeepers apprentice and the solve all sorts of mysteries in […]

Three Mothers by Sonia Lambert. Told by Helene in 1945, her daughter Vera in 1972, and her granddaughter Susie in 1994. Dramatic plot lines, emotionally satisfying, and amazing insights into things I know (giving birth, first year with a baby) and things I don’t (divorce, losing your mother). Lambert has written nothing else and doesn’t […]