fiction
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with #DateWithABook by @hook.me.a.book, with a chat about a bookish date, using book titles to answer these questions: Who was your date with?Where did you meet?What time was the rendezvous?What did you wear?What did you talk about?Will there be a second date? Books used for this challenge:– The Book…
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Till about a year ago, my serene life revolved around my wife, tennis, Kindle and the club. Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Shesh for this ebook. If you’ve ever wondered how a retired Singapore CEO would do as an assassin, this is your chance to find out. And if you’ve never wondered about something so oddly…
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For Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m posting the books I’ve added to my digital library this week, and the blurbs that made me download them in the first place. Murder on the Lamplight Express by Morgan Stang The orders given to Isabeau Agarwal and her partner are simple: ensure the safety of…
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“Things are different here,” sir, said Carrot. “It wasn’t until ten years ago they replaced trial by ordeal with trial by lawyer, and that was only because they found that lawyers were nastier.” Book 24 in the Discworld series, Book 5 in the City Watch subseries. Sam Vimes has been through a lot in his…
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Tonight, Isabeau Agarwal, Huntress, would kill one of ten guests in Spindle Manor. A fabulously weird and wondrous cozy horror novel blending historical fiction, steampunk elements, paranormal mystery and gothic fantasy. Spindle Manor is a remote guesthouse where the huntress Isabeau Agarwal is hoping to apprehend a deadly monster disguising itself as one of a…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the Cluedo challenge by @chapter1.page1, finding book titles to answer the questions Who was the murderer? Where did the crime occur? With what was the murder committed? “Where” in Cluedo refers to a room in a house, but I don’t have any book titles in my collection that…
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September 15 marks the birthday of the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. The #readchristie2026 pick for September is Endless Night, a book Agatha Christie herself considered one of her best works, and it seems quite appropriate to post about it today. Endless Night is a difficult book to review without spoilers, because a lot of…
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Goodreads Monday/TBR Monday hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog invites you to post about what books are on your Goodreads “to read” lists or TBR lists, the progress you have made on your current books and reading challenges, and any other bookish news! It is time for another update for the Autumn Book Bingo by…
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Today I’m joining The Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz with an update on my Sunday Shelf Exploration challenge to myself to find and read books from my out-of-control digital collection. Since my last Sunday Shelf Exploration post, I’ve read three of the books I featured, Unnatural Causes by T. E. Harkins, The Unlikely Murder Club by…
