I started reading Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching, but lost interest. The writing seems overwrought in a juvenile way. I wanted to like this, and I wanted to teach it,…
crime fiction
A Murder is Announced
May 29, 2019The first Miss Marple mystery I’ve ever read and I liked it a lot. I just finished writing a book review of Andrew Hobbs’ A Fleet Street in Every Town: The…
Magpie Murders
December 29, 2018About fifteen pages into this book, I started thinking about one of my favorite TV shows, Midsomer Murders. The book starts out exactly that way, introducing a network of characters, all…
Camino Island
February 17, 2018Camino Island, by John Grisham, definitely felt like a guilty pleasure. I listened to it, for the neighborhood book club, while driving around town for a few weeks. It’s the…