You know what's great about regularly visiting your indie bookshop? The staff really gets to know you and figures out that you're a reliable human, so when you head downtown to the indie bookshop to order an expensive book with the really nice gift card you got a while back, and it's not until you've … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: September 12, 2021
Book Reviews
Sunday Sum-Up: September 5, 2021
September got the memo about its being Spooky Season. Usually, the first couple of weeks of September are hot and dry, but it's been much cooler (in the upper-70s°F to mid-80s°F) with a reasonable amount of rain. We had a couple of flash flood warnings pop up when some storms were coming in, but there … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: September 5, 2021
Book Review: The Heron’s Cry
The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers #2)by Ann CleevesMystery384 pagesExpected publication date: September 7, 2021 by St. Martin's Press The quiet ease of north Devon's sultry summer is abruptly shattered one morning when Dr. Nigel Yeo is found dead in his daughter Eve's art studio, stabbed to death with a shard from one of Eve's blown … Continue reading Book Review: The Heron’s Cry
Book Review: The Real Valkyrie
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie BrownNonfiction/History336 pagesExpected publication date: August 31, 2021 by St. Martin's Press In 1889 in Birka, Sweden, archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe documented the grave of a highly-ranked warrior of tenth-century Norse society who had been buried with weapons, silk garments, and two horses among … Continue reading Book Review: The Real Valkyrie
Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
It's tomato season around here. I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Nebraska, everyone with a garden plants roughly one-hundred tomato plants, as though they expect that only one in five plants will produce anything. But of course, each plant produces enough for a dozen people, and so everyone goes … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
Sunday Sum-Up: August 15, 2021
Friday the 13th was the other day. Does this mean we can officially start decorating for Halloween? Asking for a friend. The heatwave finally broke here, and yesterday was lovely. Today is supposed to be lovely, and the rest of the week is supposed to be lovely, too, although my day off is predicted to … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 15, 2021
Book Review: Velvet was the Night
Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-GarciaMystery/Noir304 pagesExpected publication date: August 17, 2021 by Del Rey In 1970s Mexico City, political unrest bubbled beneath the surface of everyday life, and sometime boiled over in the form of protests, riots, and violence. In the midst of this, El Elvis is part of a gang seeking to … Continue reading Book Review: Velvet was the Night
Sunday Sum-Up: July 18, 2021
Busy week at work, and I am tired. But at least the big weekend thing is over. And now I am super tired. Fortunately I have some time off coming up. Next week. But aside from work, this week has been... nice? I mean weather-wise (because I know you're all here for my weekly weather … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: July 18, 2021
Book Review: The Witness for the Dead
The Witness for the Dead (The Goblin Emperor #2)by Katherine AddisonFantasy240 pagesPublished in June, 2021, by Tor In The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison introduced us to Maia Drazhar, the youngest and ill-favored half-goblin son of the emperor of the elven lands. After the suspicious deaths of his father and elder brothers, Maia suddenly found himself … Continue reading Book Review: The Witness for the Dead
Sunday Sum-Up: July 11, 2021
It was a weird but laid-back kind of week around here. Nothing much was going on, and yet it felt like my evenings were packed full of things that needed doing, like grocery shopping and (finally) finishing an editing project that I've been working on for a friend's self-published book for what feels like an … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: July 11, 2021
