Category: Book Reviews

• Have Yourself a Mysterious Christmas

  Ah, there is nothing like a little mystery, murder, and mayhem to get you in the Christmas spirit. If you don’t know what I mean, you must never have read The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries: The Most Complete Collection of Yuletide Whodunits Ever Assembled. This short story collection, alternately heartwarming (a few Scrooge-type characters…

  Mary

  December 23, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations

  AChristmasCarol, MysteriousBookshop, MysteriousChristmas, SirArthurConanDoyle, TheBigBookOfChristmasMysteries

• The Coziest Season

  It’s that time of year again, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and many of us are preparing to hunker down for a long, tedious winter season. But what if instead of kicking and screaming our way into winter, we joyfully tuck ourselves in for a deliciously slow and cozy few…

  Cate T.

  December 9, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations

  AlexanderMcCallSmith, AWizardsGuideToDefensiveBaking, BeforeTheCoffeeGetsCold, Can’tSpellTreatsonWithoutTea, Cozy, Cuppa, DreamHarborSeries, EmilyWildesEncyclopaediaOfFairies, EvieGaughan, HeatherFawcett, HisashiKashiwai, JesseQSutanto, LaurieGilmore, Legends&Lattes, MaryAnnShaffer, RebeccaThorne, SarahBethDurst, TheCinnamonBunBookstore, TheGuernseyLiteraryAndPotatoPeelPieSociety, TheHouseInTheCeruleanSea, TheKamogawaFoodDetectives, TheNo1LadiesDetectiveAgency, ThePumpkinSpiceCafe, TheSpellshop, TheStoryCollector, TJKlune, TKingfisher, Tomes&TeaCozyFantasies, ToshikazuKawaguchi, TravisBaldree, VeraWongsUnsolicitedAdviceForMurderers, Winter

• Wine & Words: A Perry Pairing

  Washington: A LifeBy Ron Chernow By the time you are reading this a new president will be elected. I am not going to be political, but in leu of this election season, I would like to bring it back to our first elected president, George Washington. Let’s square away some things first; many people have…

  sbarillari

  November 25, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations, Trending, Wine & Words

  AlexanderHamilton, CherryTree, Ciders, CidrerieDuVulcain, France, GeorgeWashington, GilbertStuart, HamiltonThePlay, JacquesPerita, JohnAdams, MtVernon, NewEngland, Normandy, PoireComment, RembrandtPeale, RonChernow, WashingtonALife, WashingtonBeforeYorktown, WoodenTeeth

• What Books Go with Turkey and Gratitude?

  It’s that time of year again: Daylight Savings Time. The sun drops below the horizon before 4:30PM now – long before many of us leave work for home. Car accidents increase because no one’s used to driving in the dark before dinner with glaring LED headlights in our eyes. Many people are pretty bummed about…

  Amy S.

  November 18, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations

  AgathaRaisin, AManCalledOve, BarbaraPark, ChristmasVacation, DaylightSavingsTime, FredrikBackman, Gratitude, JunieBJones, MidsomerMurders, PhillipaGregory, PopBiscuits, Thanksgiving, ThePlague, TheWhiteQueen, TurkeyDinner, TurkeysWeHaveLovedAndEaten, TurkeyTrotMurder

• Wine & Words: All Souls of Sancerre

  All Souls Series: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness  “It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.” I am not sure if many of you know the quote, it is from the series known as A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. The…

  sbarillari

  October 28, 2024

  Book Reviews, Wine & Words

  ADiscoveryOfWitches, AllHallowsEve, AllSoulsTrilogy, ArthurMiller, BeccaBishop, DeborahHarkness, DianaBishop, DomaineSerge, France, LaloueRouge, RedWine, SalemWitchTrials, Sancerre, SavignonBlanc, TheBlackBirdOracle, TheCongregation, TheCrucible, Vampires