Week beginning 28 August 2024

Joshua Stein The Binge Watcher’s Guide to The West Wing Seasons One and Two Riverdale Avenue Books The Binge Watcher’s Guide, August 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Reading The Binge Watcher’s Guide to The West Wing while also watching the 2024 Democratic National Convention could notContinue reading “Week beginning 28 August 2024”

Week beginning 21 August 2024

Linda Epstein; Ally Malinenko; Liz Parker The Other March Sisters Kensington Publishing, February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review.   Liz Parker, Ally Malinenko, and Linda Epstein have woven a story that rejects the importance that Louise M. Alcott gave to Jo March and the sisters’ mother, Marmee.Continue reading “Week beginning 21 August 2024”

Week beginning August 14 2024

Donna Leon A Refiner’s Fire, A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Grove Atlantic, July 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Donna Leon’s writing is such a joy, something to savour, as Guido Burnetti and his family navigate their personal lives and the newest case to be investigated. In thisContinue reading “Week beginning August 14 2024”

Week beginning 7 August 2024

Laura Katz Olsen Wrinkled Rebels Vine Leaves Press, July 23, 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I loved reading this absorbing account of the young women and men who developed their political ideas and responses while at university. Now in their eighties they are to meet again, andContinue reading “Week beginning 7 August 2024”

Week beginning 31 July 2024

Lisa Jackson Our Little Secret Kensington Publishing, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I found this an extremely disappointing read that prolonged my  frustration through repetition and a fairly predictable story line that meandered through family angst, infidelity, missing teenagers, the main character’s internal arguments, and obsession.Continue reading “Week beginning 31 July 2024”