Thank you Justin The Chancellor Ferguson for my gift! I cannot wait to get into some good mysteries this winter.
Book that made me go hmmmm…
The Once and Future Spy by Robert Littell
I am a huge fan of mystery and spy novels, so when I saw this in a Free Little Library I picked it up based on the title alone. I then read the blurb on the back of the book from a NY Times review which called Littell the American John Le Carré. I don’t like Le Carré’s work (based on the two books of his that I have read), so it took me a while to decide I was going to read this anyway […]
This book scared the bejeezus out of me!
Middle School Matters by Phyllis L. Fagell
BINGO PANDEMIC I don’t know why I chose to read this book during a pandemic that already had me on edge. Maybe because it had been on my bedside table for so long that I decided its turn had come. Maybe because I was looking for something besides the usual mystery escapism I had been reading. Either way, I am glad I read this, even though as a parent of middle schoolers, it terrified me. Ms. Fagell is a school counselor at a well known […]
Good Mystery with a Common Theme
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
BINGO THE ROARING 20s This is the third Lord Peter Wimsey novel, but it does not matter what order you read them in (although in the first book you get a good sense of Lord Wimsey which helps one to understand who he is and where he is coming from). Basically, he is a bored, rich, second son of a Duke who befriends a Scotland Yard detective and fancies himself an sleuth. Always cleverer than the police, and due to his title he is able […]
Sassy Girl Detective
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
BINGO GREEN I love me a good mystery novel and I love, love, love the heroine/main character in this book, Flavia DeLuce. Flavia is the 11 year old youngest daughter of Colonel DeLuce, the head of the county seat/manor. Flavia has two older sisters who torment her as much as possible (Ophelia is boy obsessed and Daphne is book obsessed). But Flavia, who is chemistry obsessed and spends her time in the old Victorian chemistry lab in her home learning about poisons, gives as good […]
Adapt or Die
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
BINGO MONEY! I admit that I chose to read this book because I needed something for the Money! bingo square. I could have used my “read whatever you want” option, but I figured I would save that just in case. I really like baseball though, so I figured that this book might not be a bad choice. I was right. Having just watched the World Series between the LA Dodgers (a very high payroll team which means they can afford to get top expensive players), […]
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