1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 — Playing Catch-Up Here with a Grab-Bag of Books for you

I’ve been reading, yes, but I’ve also been packing and trying to get the house organized to leave it for almost two months and visiting the kids before we leave and meeting with the housesitter…

View Post

More Italy. . . Because I’ll be there soon!

I have to say I’m getting a bit panicky about how many titles I’m behind here. I’ve read so many wonderful books this summer, but I seem to have written about so few of them.…

View Post

Icy Times in a Wonderful Parisian-Set Mystery. . .Vargas and Adamsberg

Last post, I wrote a bit about the role Obligation plays in my reading. Perhaps I made it sound as if Obligation was necessarily at odds with Pleasure, and of course, that is Wrong. Wrong.…

View Post

Montreal Mysteries on Canada Day. . .

Whoops! I see there’s some danger of slipping back into my old ways; it’s three weeks since I last posted. (echoes there, aren’t there, of my old Catholic formula for confession? Bless me, Father, it’s…

View Post

Two Mysteries and Some Italy. . .

You know I love my mystery novels. . . I made sure to download a few to my Kobo eReader for the long plane rides to and from Paris. Peter Robinson’s Abattoir Blues is his 22nd…

View Post

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.