Wednesday, the 29th of November, and Shelf Control time once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do is pick…
Book Review: Cat Family at the Museum (2023) by Lucy Brownridge and illustrated by Eunyoung Seo
My thanks to Francis Lincoln books for a review copy of this book via Edelweiss. Having loved the Christmassy and beautiful flap book, Cat Family Christmas (2022) last year, I was thrilled to see the author–illustrator team of Lucy Brownridge and Eunyoung Seo back with another adventure of the cat family, a visit to the…
Book Review: Crook O’ Lune (1953) by E. C. R. Lorac
My thanks to Poisoned Pen Press for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. Crook O’ Lune (1953) is as much a book of Lancashire’s farms and fells as it is a (murder) mystery featuring Edith Caroline Rivett or E. C. R. Lorac’s Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, with Lorac’s wonderful powers of description bringing…
Shelf Control #255: The Blotting Book By E.F. Benson
Wednesday, the 22nd of November 2023, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, simply pick a…
Book Review: Death by Didgeridoo (2013) by Barbara Venkataraman #NovNov
My thanks to author Barbara Venkataraman for a review copy of this book. Death by Didgeridoo (2013) is the first in the Jamie Quinn series of cosy mysteries featuring a family lawyer who is pulled into mystery solving in this book, and I’m guessing continues to do so through the rest of the series. Before…
Book Review: The Republic of Plato: Book 1 Remix by G. McLaughlin #NonfictionNovember
My thanks to Booktasters for a review copy of this book. In The Republic of Plato: Book 1 Remix, author G. McLaughlin makes the first book of Plato a quick and enjoyable read by rendering it into simple verse, while keeping the dialogic format and Socrates’ intricate arguments intact. Book one of the Republic broadly…
Nonfiction November Week 3: Book Pairings
It's week 3 of Nonfiction November and I'm just about done with my second nonfic read for the month which I should be reviewing soon. Meanwhile, here's my post for this week's prompt, Book Pairings: fiction and nonfiction titles that 'go' together, perhaps because of the subject, the people written about or any other way.…
Book Review: This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura and translated by Hitomi Yoshio #NovNov
My thanks to Pushkin Press for a review copy of this book via Edelweiss. This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura is another entry from Pushkin’s Japanese Novellas series, originally published in 2014 and in this translation by Hitomi Yoshio in 2023. This is the story of Amiko Tanaka, a young neurodivergent girl,…
Review: Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch (Penguin Modern no. 34) by Hans Fallada
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? proved to be a delightful and fun introduction to the writing of Hans Fallada (or Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen) whose only other book on my to-read list so far is the sombre and in various ways daunting, Every Man Dies Alone/Alone in Berlin. The stories that made up…
Shelf Control #254: The Provincial Lady in Russia by E. M. Delafield
Wednesday, the 15th of November 2023, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do…
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