Moan: Junji Ito Story Collection
Junji Ito is the absolute best at taking familiar things, a clogged drain or a new transfer student, and turning them into horrible things that resonate long after the story is done. Moan: Junji Ito Story Collection gives us six more reasons to have restless sleep tonight. This collection isContinue Reading
The Armchair Detectives
I’ve read a lot of mysteries with unreliable narrators. However, The Armchair Detectives is unique because Martin may, or may not, have dementia. He also may, or may not, have a former career as a spy. Martin’s thoughtful though somewhat reluctant sidekick, Albie, makes up the other half of TheContinue Reading
Fizz
Watched all the Mormon Wives episodes but sick of paying for overpriced soda syrups? Fizz has the answer with more than 70 different mostly non-alcoholic soda concoctions. I’ve had a Sodastream for years. I’ve never used it so much. These recipes are delicious and cheaper than the pricey prepackaged syrups.Continue Reading
6:40 to Montreal
Take 1 part the locked room mysteries of John Dickson Carr and 2 parts Murder on the Orient Express and you have 6:40 to Montreal, a new whodunnit. Long married Agatha is a writer who has both a writer’s block and cancer. She attempts to solve one and forget theContinue Reading
The Art of Gluten-Free Bread
The Art of Gluten-Free Bread provides a multitude of recipes for gluten free breads. From sourdough breads to yeast breads to holiday feast breads, most wheat bread types are recreated as gluten free here. There are even recipes for brownies, dinner rolls and croissants. Each recipe includes a gorgeous colorContinue Reading
Murder on the Marlow Belle
Lady-of-a-certain-age Judith and her best friends Becks and Suzie are back on the case in Murder on the Marlow Belle. A local blowhard who runs the town’s drama society and playhouse is killed on a boat where everyone is a suspect. Was it his protégé who is now an eliteContinue Reading
I Blew My Diet! Now What?
I Blew My Diet! Now What? uses a KetoMod diet and some soul searching to get your diet back on track. A KetoMod diet emphasizes non-starchy vegetables, full fats & protein. It limits carbs daily to 40 grams. The book includes three weeks of shopping lists and recipes. The recipesContinue Reading
Wild Watercolor
With 36 weekly progressively more difficult lessons, Wild Watercolor is like taking an art class in your home. Beginning with a simple sky and concluding with an advanced Prickly Pear Cactus Flower, this book gently moves your skill set forward. Using a fully illustrated step-by step approach, the author teachesContinue Reading
Bad Things Happened in This Room
Bad Things Happened in This Room is a weird fevered dream of a book. It is, perhaps, the best first person depiction of mental illness that I have ever read. That, of course, takes it down a rather unnerving and depressing path. Is our heroine just a victim of herContinue Reading
Ultimate Origami Challenge Kit for Kids 8-12
Ready to learn a fun and inexpensive new hobby regardless of your age? The Ultimate Origami Challenge Kit for Kids 8-12 will walk you through paper folding step-by-step. Beginning with a simple grasshopper and progressing through 29 additional increasingly difficult projects, this book has something for every skill level. TheContinue Reading
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
A mysterious host lures seven guests to a posh dinner party in Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests. While there, they each receive an envelope that includes a card with their age at time of their death. Most think it is a not-very-clever PR stunt. Until the bodies startContinue Reading
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
I have one word for the newly translated Icelandic thriller, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer. Frustrating. This book has a mystery of a missing crime writer but so much more. It has a detective with a violent ex-girlfriend in 2012, a bank robbery being planned in 1965,Continue Reading
92 Quick & Healthy Recipes for Every Day
92 Quick & Healthy Recipes for Every Day is a cookbook for beginners with recipes for only one or two people. The ingredients are easy to find and not too numerous. That makes this cookbook a great gift for young/new adults moving out of their family’s home for the firstContinue Reading
The Intelligence Explosion
I can sum up The Intelligence Explosion in two words. Robots BAAAAD! And by robots, I mean artificial intelligence in all its myriad of forms. Of the thirteen chapters in the book, only one presents the benefits of AI. The rest present the ways AI will mess us up. AI’sContinue Reading
For Duck’s Sake
In For Duck’s Sake, Meg has had enough of planning huge events. When her town decides to have a parade and fair to support an animal adoption event, she successfully pawns off the leadership of it to her uber organized mother. That leaves Meg plenty of time to help theContinue Reading
The Locked Ward
Twin girls adopted at birth by two families. One is middle class. One is upper class. The rich one is accused of murdering her family’s biological daughter. The other tries to get her freed from The Locked Ward, a psychiatric hospital where she is being held on a murder charge.Continue Reading