Let me jump right in here. Summer is rushing past, but it’s August…time of getaways, time of the solar eclipse. We all want to hide out once in a while, and August is the time to do it. Here are some books for the journey. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: […]
The reading life 2015
The curtain has fallen on another year of great books, and it’s time to take stock of what has passed. Nearly six months ago I did a little mid-year check in, and I realize that most of the great books I read last year were during that first six months. For personal reasons, I sought escape […]
Ann Cleeves, Barbara Havers, Cormoran Strike, crime fiction, Elizabeth George, female sleuths, Louise Penny, mysteries, mystery series, Peter Robinson, Robert Galbraith, Thomas Lynley, William Kent Krueger