⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Middle-school mayhem magic. Austin Davenport, grade six, is an everyman (or an everymiddle-schooler, at least). Slightly nerdy, awkward, insecure and trying desperately to fit in with the “cool” kids, Austin and his struggles are immediately relatable and universally compelling. Where he differs though, is in that Austin…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “You give up traditions at your peril. One day you’ll look back and not remember who you are.” Imagine it’s 1909, and you, a Jewish teen accompanied by your family, survivors of the Russian revolution at a terrible cost, land in NYC to begin a new life.…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Who inspires you? The author of this fascinating collection of non-fictional stories asked this very question to twenty people, beginning with one author-selected subject, and then following the chain organically by meeting with each interviewee’s inspirational choice in sequence. The result is a wonderful compendium of…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] I had no idea what to expect in a book with such a strange title. So I looked it up. Sophomania: A delusion of having superior knowledge. And armed with that definition, as you now are, I began reading one of the most unusual mysteries I’ve…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Spellbinding. Poignant. Inspirational. Brimming with the naturalism of Barbara Kingsolver and the authenticity of Anne Tyler, this book reached and filled a Covid-fueled paucity I wasn’t fully aware of. “What was there to be afraid of in this place where everything was as you saw it -…
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the #RRbooktours #blogtour for the thriller #Safekeeping by #evamackenzie How far will we go to protect our secrets, and the ones we love? Are the choices we make for love ever really justifiable? In this book we meet Sonia, Jamie and Jenna,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monsterAnd when you gaze long into an abyss then the abyss also gazes into you”. With those words from philosopher Nietzsche, we get a glimpse into the soul of Detective Sergeant…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] The third installment in the “Sam Applewhite” series, this madly manic romp has Sam, - once again inadvertently enmeshed in a labyrinth of criminal activity - fighting for her life, scouting out stolen antiques and staring down Hugh, a rangy elderly tiger. All of this mayhem takes…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Even more uproarious than Sealfinger, the first in the Sam Applewhite series, the follow-up novel Doggerland is full-on chuckle-out-loud delightful - think P.G Wodehouse populated with homicidal maniacs, woolly mammoths, Viking misfits, and British pensioners; cavorting over the ancient lands of Doggerland, buried deep within the wintry…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “Sealfinger”, the first in the “Sam Applewhite” series is a one-of-a-kind smorgasbord of crime that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, totally engaging, and incredibly horrific (in a funny way). Based in the seasonal mayhem of Skegness, Lincolnshire, Sam Applewhite, is a tough, level-headed wonder who works for a…