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Week in Winter, A

Found Homes, Broken Families, and Love  Author: Marcia Willett Moorgate is a cozy country mansion, overlooking the Moors. When you open the windows, you can hear the rooks babbling to one another. You can watch the grasses waving on the Moors, the distance hazy and purple. It’s a beauty that is sublime for its very harshness, its remoteness. Many people are in love with it, all for different reasons. But who will get this home with all its associated romance and heartache, and what must they go through to get it? Lady Todhunter, Maudie, is forced to sell Moorgate, the family [...]

2026-06-27T21:34:03-07:00June 27th, 2026|Tags: , , , , |

We’ll Prescribe You a Cat

“Cats are more effective than any other medicine out there.” Author: Syou Ishida In five interconnected narratives five down-and-out people, each suffering from acute mental distress, find themselves in the magical Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul, consulting the disconcertingly laid-back Dr. Nikké and his irritable nurse, Chitose. You only find this clinic from rumor – the recommendation of a friend’s brother’s babysitter’s aunt, for example. It’s down a difficult to navigate alley, it appears like magic, and no matter what you are suffering, they will cure you. The cure, however, is just as unexpected as it is delightful and adorable. [...]

Killer Crop, A

An Apple a Day Will Keep The Investigation Away Author: Sheila Connolly Meg has inherited an orchard and is still trying to make a go of this new farming life. The problem? Her erstwhile mother is secretly in town, and now her mother’s “friend,” an esteemed English professor on the verge of a revelation about Emily Dickinson, has been murdered. With apple harvest season in full swing, Meg must take care of her stranded mother, all the while wondering if mommy dearest is capable of murder. I started A Killer Crop four books into the Orchard Mystery series; I came across [...]

2024-06-13T17:19:34-07:00June 13th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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