reviews

Another Love Scheme Gone Wrong at Totliegh Towers Author: P.G. Wodehouse Coming back from Chattanooga through a ten hour drive, it was time to load up on double shot expressos and some good reading. Having picked up Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves at the library before our mini-vacation road trip/visiting spree, I was excited to introduce the boyfriend to the wonderfully wacky world of P.G. Wodehouse. I’d recently finished Code of the Woosters and when I saw the mention of Totleigh Towers on the back cover blurb, I knew I had found my next guilty pleasure. As a matter of fact [...]

Redemption, History, and the Bond of Family Author: Michelle Brafman Washing the Dead is both a personal story of growth and a generational saga examining chain-of-events and how the mother/daughter relationship becomes such a broken, needy thing. Barbara Pupnick grows up in an enclave of Orthodox Judaism with a mother devoted to the synagogue and best friends with the Rabbi’s wife. Her world is perfect, her place marked, her belonging unquestioned, and her status irrefutable – or is it? A beautiful mother haunted with secrets and an affair with the Shabbos-Goy (a gentile – read non-Jewish – worker at the [...]

A Cozy Collection of 12 Mystery Stories Author: Agatha Christie A cozy mystery fan and recent addict to Agatha Christie, thanks to discovering Miss Marple audiobooks at my library, I picked up The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Short Stories for a ten hour trip with the boyfriend to Tennessee. My motives were not pure. I was looking not only to addict him to books to my own obsessive degree, but to have someone to discuss the twists and turns for which Christie is so famous. Mysteries are fun, engaging, distracting, and a good mental workout when squishing into an [...]