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The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
Read February 2019 Recommended for fans of djinn, interesting reads ★ ★ ★ ★ Cairo, 1912 or so. There’s a ghost in Tram Car 015, although Senior Agent Hamed is fairly certain it isn’t a ghost. You … Continue reading
Magical Midlife Madness by K.F. Breene. Or, A Midlife I Can Get Behind
Read May 2020 Recommended for fans of Clean Sweep, PNR ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I really don’t think it’s QuarantineBrain™, but if you try and say it’s peri-menopause brain, I will come over and beat you with an old … Continue reading
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Read May 2020 Recommended for fans of cleverness, digression ★ ★ ★ ★ Once again, The Fourth Bear makes the personal library cut. Oh, don’t get me wrong; it’s as meandering as bumblebee at the height of … Continue reading
How to Live an Undead Lie by Hailey Edwards
Read April 2020 Recommended for fans of Sookie Stackhouse ★ ★ ★ ★ Another enjoyable entry in the Necromancy series. As an aside, the ‘necromancy’ seems to be similar to ‘magic,’ except the skill can also raise … Continue reading
Reef Creature Identification by Paul Humann and Ned Deloach
Read April 2020 Recommended for fans of divers, snorklers ★ ★ ★ ★ This is considered The Definitive Reference for creatures in the listed areas (there’s a similar set for Hawaii). I’m a biology nerd and snorkeling … Continue reading
Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews
Read January 2020, 2015 Recommended for fans of magical inns ★ ★ ★ ★ Surprisingly, I liked this even better than the first novel in the Innkeeper series, Clean Sweep. I expected a paranormal romance direction … Continue reading
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Read December 2019 Recommended for middle school detectives ★ ★ ★ ★ The Westing Game is first full-length mystery I remember reading. Well, besides Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew books. But the one mystery that I could still … Continue reading
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Read June 2019 Recommended for everyone, particularly young people, Floridians, coasties and Trumpsters ★ ★ ★ ★ For too long the national climate debate has centered on “is it real?” and “is it man-made?” How this occurred … Continue reading
A Song of Shadows by John Connolly
Read June 2019 Recommended for fans of the series ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Easily the best Charlie Parker book since The Lovers (#8). It was, for me, a perfectly balanced Parker book: mystery, the supernatural, vengeance, visceral horror, … Continue reading
The Size of the Truth by Andrew Smith
Read June 2019 Recommended for fans of quirky kids ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I (excuse me) hated sixth grade. So I was hesitant to read a book about Sam, who, “during the first week of sixth grade … Continue reading
