An American Bluestocking
The diary of an intrepid reader
Recent Reviews
Poirot toils to solve the 12 ‘Labors of Hercules’
Hercule Poirot sets out to solve one case for each of the 12 labors performed by his namesake of Greek mythology.
Library lovers will revel in the historical fiction of ‘The Lions of Fifth Avenue’
Living inside a library sounds like a dream. But the social tumult of the early 1900s can’t be kept outside the walls forever. What really happened to the Lyons family all those years ago?
A deaf woman lip-reads her way into danger in ‘The Listening Eye’
Miss Silver has her hands full when she is hired by a deaf woman who learns via lip-reading about two men planning a robbery and murder.
Bosch is back to solve a pair of cold cases in ‘The Wrong Side of Goodbye’
A dying billionaire wants Harry Bosch to find his long-lost heir — who may not even exist. Meanwhile, Bosch is on the trail of a serial rapist, a case whose solution might hit a little too close to home.
Archaeology and murder mix again in Griffiths’ ‘The Night Hawks’
Ruth Galloway is back in Norfolk, and it doesn’t take the archaeology professor long to pick up the threads of her old life, including getting swept up in a murder investigation.
There’s no room for romance in ‘The Bookish Life of Nina Hill’
Nina Hill loves her single life. She has no time for a boyfriend in her carefully scheduled days, no matter what her friends (and his) think. Or does she?
A fictional pandemic even more horrifying than the real one? Yikes!
A pandemic where the infected people are unresponsive sleepwalkers marching to an unknown destination turns out to be even more scary than the one we’re living through.
Homage or sendup? ‘The Eighth Detective’ is above all a puzzle
A mathematician “proves” that all mystery stories fall into just seven types. But before a publisher can print his work, she must figure out what he’s hiding.
Don’t let the sun go down on you in small-town Maine
Return with me to a more innocent time, when the only bloodsuckers you had to worry about were actual vampires.
Happiness is having your own library card.
Sally Brown in Peanuts
My Life Is an Open Book
Hi, I’m Julia. I started reading before kindergarten, and I haven’t stopped since. The next best thing to reading a book is talking about it with friends.
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