I love Sarah Caudwell's books but I always feel a little sad when I read them, as hilarious as they are. Because there are four and there will be no more. Ever. Caudwell's books focus on a bunch of yuppie British tax lawyers. The beautiful and perfect Serena. The sexy and irrepressible Julia. The unattainable …
Continue reading 365 Books: Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
Ah, back to mysteries. I'm trying to pace myself here, I promise you. I just own a lot of mysteries, so they're going to keep showing up in my posts. Have you ever read any Edmund Crispin? He was a British writer, who wrote during the golden age. His detective, Gervase Fen, is an Oxford …
Continue reading 365 Books: Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
I think I was drawn to this book initially by the cover: a photo of someone holding a pile of books that towers so high above them that it threatens to crush them. That's my kind of cover illustration! A.J. Jacobs books always kind of start the same way: he gets a crazy idea. In …
To be honest, I thought I had a copy of this around here somewhere but my archivist checked the app on his phone and informs me that, unless I snuck a copy in without asking him to scan it into the app yet again, that book does not reside in my collection. This delightful book …
Dell Yearling has so many of the best kid's books: this one, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Journey from Peppermint Street, Piping Down the Valleys Wild - I couldn't name them all if I tried. This was one that, for awhile anyway, was on school reading lists (as so many Dell Yearlings were). Now, with …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
