This is a new author for me and I loved this book. The central character is a part-time college librarian who has a cat that goes everywhere with him. His college is hosting a librarian’s convention at which someone who is hated by everyone is murdered, making everyone at the convention a suspect. The central character has a knack for solving crimes and is instrumental in helping the police with this one. A good and interesting plot with good characters. I look forward to reading something else by this author.

While I’m not a sci-fi fan. I did enjoy this book. The book begins with a dramatic event and a creature who is part human but mostly robot saving the day. It is told from the Murder Bot’s, as he is referred to, perspective and that is what makes the story interesting. It is interesting to watch a creature who is mostly non-human struggle to deal with his humanity. And I enjoyed the surprise at the end. I will try another book from this author.

I thought this book was silly!

One of my favorites

For this book, you will not so much read it as feel it. It is all about the emotions behind a young girl in Ireland whose parents give her up to another couple to raise for a summer while the young girl’s mom has yet another baby. You will experience what it feels like to go and live with strangers, then to come to love them, only to discover that they had lost a young boy of their own. Then you will experience the sadness on everyone’s part as the young girl is taken back home to her parents so she can start school. But there may be a happy ending in sight.

Absolutely amazing second book in a series, set up the political intrigue for the second book. Very dense, but once the drama gets going, OH BOY is it GOING. The twists and turns and (slight hints at a spoiler)

Fun colors (and shades) to learn, tabs to pull, familiar objects to point to (and eventually name), we highly recommend this book. Loved it as a board book in late infancy and well into the toddler years.

set on a beach. Young woman is abused by her husband. She runs away faking her death. She ends up on this magical island. She often goes to the beach . Meeting new friends , starting a business and finding love.

An impactful story on WW2 on what it truly means to serve your country, serve the promise of freedom for all.

What a great book! And what really make it interesting is the way it is set up. It starts out as the beginning of an MFA grad student’s dissertation but then evolves into the book itself. And while it starts off as third person narrative, at some point it becomes first person, which just adds a whole new layer to the story. And to say that the story is about a man cheating on his wife and the wife maybe cheating on her husband (you’ll have to read in order to make sense of that) does not begin to do it justice.