"The forgotten founding mothers of the Fairy Tale and the stories that they spun". This pretty book sets out to tell us the personal stories and some of the output of Les Conteuses, a group of literary women in the French Upper Classes, who wrote in the era from 1690 to 1709, and who wrote …
Continue reading Women Of The Fairytale Resistance by Jane Harrington
(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …
In Aberdeen, Scotland, DI Logan McCrae is working with a skeleton crew, as officers across the board are decimated by the flu, while he's investigating the bombing of a motel that was full of immigrants and holding down the fort at the station too. But things are about to get really crazy when a body …
Continue reading This House Of Burning Bones (Logan McCrae bk #13) by Stuart MacBride
A stay-at-home dad, who feel emasculated by his workaholic wife and lack of career, is drawn into the case of a drowned man when the death is ruled an accident. He suspects foul play because the man was someone he knew before being laid off from his job in finance, a Wall Street investor, and …
Harry Bliss is a cartoonist who has drawn covers and images for the New Yorker, has illustrated over 25 childrens books and created a book with Steve Martin. In this book, he shares essays, journal entries, cartoons and artworks from his life, talking about a range of subjects from losing his beloved dog Penny after …
Tanz, along with her friend and mentor Sheila, are out celebrating a ghostbusting job that went well, when mysterious and magnetic Einar approaches their table, and gives Tanz his number. After a steamy date, he offers her a place to stay in his native Iceland where she can have a writing retreat, but when she …
Continue reading The Hidden Dead (Accidental Medium #4) by Tracy Whitwell
Orri, the 19 year old son of a farmer in Iceland, decides to take a break from his University course, and returns home to his parents farm. Over the course of the year, he finds direction through his sense of capability as he helps his father farming, through his friendship with a local farmers daughter, …
Bonny knew her father was a Holocaust survivor, and she knew he wanted her to write his story one day, but she couldn't quite look that much pain and tragedy in the eye and get to writing. This book is her story, a woman who grew up under the shadow of her father's experiences, but …
When Andy Correns's mother died, he wrote a no-holds-barred, painfully honest obituary for her, which really struck readers, and ended up going viral, reaching people all over the world and getting strong reactions, both positive and negative. Thus, this memoir was born, a memoir of his mother, both a celebration and a denigration, and the …
Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole are back into his sequel to the popular Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (which we previously reviewed HERE) When a painting goes missing from a maritime museum and a dead body is found, they're on the case under the banner of their new business as stolen antiquities hunters. The …
Continue reading The Antique Hunter’s Death On The Red Sea by CL Miller
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