Book Review: Bitch: On the Female of the Species, Lucy Cooke

Book Review: Bitch: On the Female of the Species, Lucy Cooke   Nonfiction/Science: Bitch: On the Female of the Species, Lucy Cooke   In her provocatively titled book, Bitch, Lucy Cooke takes aim at the biases that have shaped the study of animals, specifically, biases against females (or perhaps for males). Cooke is a brilliant […]

Book Review: The Lost Spells, Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris

Book Review: The Lost Spells, Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris   Poetry Collection: The Lost Spells, Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris   We reviewed the first collaboration of these artists a while ago. The Lost Words was a breathtaking set of poems and illustrations highlighting words that had been deliberately omitted from a recent dictionary. […]

Blog Tour: Death Comes to Santa Fe, Amanda Allen

Book Review: Death Comes to Santa Fe, A Santa Fe Revival Mystery Book 3, Amanda Allen Mystery: Death Comes to Santa Fe, A Santa Fe Revival Mystery Book 3, Amanda Allen   Madeline (Maddie) Vaughn-Alwin feels like her new life is everything she dreamed of when she came to Santa Fe. Widowed after a very short marriage, […]

Book Review: Red Mandarin Dress, Qiu Xiaolong

Book Review: Red Mandarin Dress, Inspector Chen Book 5, Qiu Xiaolong   Mystery: Red Mandarin Dress, Inspector Chen Book 5, Qiu Xiaolong   Inspector Chen is often assigned politically sensitive cases. In communist China, those cases can make or break careers, depending less on the arrest of the criminal and more on the inspector’s ability […]

Blog Tour: The Wild Coast, Lin Anderson

Book Review: The Wild Coast, Rhona MacLeod Book 17, Lin Anderson Thriller: The Wild Coast, Rhona MacLeod Book 17, Lin Anderson Blog Tour August 14, 2023   Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is on her way home to Glasgow when her trip is interrupted by the discovery of a shallow grave along the coast. A young […]