On My Bookshelf...

Holiday reading can be fun, so I picked up the 14th installment of Leslie Meier's Lucy Stone series in anticipation of St. Patrick...

Sandra Harper's holiday novel is a nice way to spend an afternoon relaxing. The title could have double meaning and perhaps that was the...

Despite the fact that Christmas is nearly a month over now, I did some holiday reading in December and want to get at least some mini-review...

Father's Day is coming up and maybe you're looking for something to give a Grandpa? Well, Me With You by Kristy Dempsey just might b...

Our theme this week is...Valentine's Day! We love Little Critter, Mercer Mayer's vaguely porcupine-like little guy and his animal ...

Next up I'll finally do the year in review, but I read three more books in 2008 before closing the Christmas season. Blue Christmas by M...

Part One here! Part Two here! I read three more Christmas mysteries on my Murder for Christmas spree: Mistletoe and Murder by Carola Dunn: ...

Read Part One here! Christmas Cookie Murder by Leslie Meier: If I'd realized that the first in the Lucy Stone series was Mistletoe and ...

We have a couple more book tour stops coming up on Picture Book Thursday so Allison and I decided to do Christmas books this week. There are...

Inspired by holiday releases by two of my favorite mystery writers, I decided to sample several (okay, a LOT) of Christmas-themed mysteries....

Today, we have Halloween Part 2! We were at story time on Tuesday morning this week and Goodnight Goon by Michael Rex was featured. This was...

We have so many Halloween books...it's hard to choose which to feature. Good thing we have two weeks in a row of Halloween books! Whe...

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. Character development is really good overall. The story sort of ebbs and flows. I tended to be very inter...

Okay, finished holiday book #2 for today. This collection of essays is autobiographical in nature (found in the nonfiction section) and agai...

This book by Dave Barry is a delightful, easy and quick read. It takes place in 1960 in New York during Christmas. The narrator is a junior ...

I've been reading Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo. I LOVED Empire Falls. I really liked his style of writing and the depth of the char...

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the whole month of October with the culmination of Halloween. The (supposedly) cri...