Liquid Shades of Blue by James Polkinghorn is coming soon – a review

A promising debut novel that kept me up late… Liquid Shades of Blue is a promising first book from author James Polkinghorn.  It’s a bit rough in places, but kept me reading much later into the night than I should have – not so much trying to figure out what happened (the outlines of which

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A review of The Net of Steel by Fiona Buckley – coming soon

It’s hard to believe that The Net of Steel is Fiona Buckley’s twenty-second Ursula Blanchard (now Ursula Stannard) mystery, and the series is still going strong.    And in fact, it might even be getting better…    As The Net of Steel opens, Ursula faces a number of life’s milestones: her son, Harry, has gotten engaged;

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A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill is on sale in the US and UK

A Few Right Thinking Men is the first in Sulari Gentill’s Rowland Sinclair historical (WWII) series. It’s on sale in the US for $1.99 (and discountable at Kobo US), and it’s also £1.99 at Kindle UK. I’ve never gotten into this series because almost all of the rest of the titles, with the occasional exception

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Eight Slough House books by Mick Herron are on sale in the UK today

Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK today is all eight Slough House books by Mick Herron for £0.99 each. Per SYKM, the books in this series have all been nominated/won various awards. The books include Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, Joe Country, Slough House, and Bad Actors. Link to the

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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George is on sale in the US right now

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George was, per Wikipedia, a 1960 Newbery Honor Award winner. (Wikipedia indicates this means it was a runner-up.) And among the bazillions of books I’ve read I still remember this one quite vividly from when I was young. Oh, and in a vividly positive way 😊…I guess one could also

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There Is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill is on sale today in the US

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill is $1.99 as part of today’s Kindle Daily Deal in the US, matched at Kobo US. I especially like the recommendation from Timothy Snyder – my husband and I watched his Making of Modern Ukraine course, available from Yale on

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