#FlashBackFriday January 2022

My last post for this meme was:#FlashBackFriday December 2021 This is a monthly meme hosted by Kerry @Chat about Books and, as always, a brilliant way to recollect and reminisce about the books you read at the same time last year. As always, I link the reviews to the cover pages if you are interested…

The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece (Perry Mason #8) by Erle Stanley Gardner

I let my kindle unlimited subscription languish for a while. One fine day when I was in the mood again, I refreshed the entire queue and chose a fresh set of books/audiobooks to read/listen to. I have since let it sit again (maybe the writing of this review might help in some form). This book…

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

This is a story that requires some amount of patience to appreciate. It is entirely unique in its presentation of a family of two being tossed around by thoughts that they are unable to control but that control their ultimate behaviour.The mother and son duo have lost the thread that held their tiny family together.…

Single All The Way by Portia MacIntosh

As mentioned earlier, this is an author whose writing is one that I find myself enjoying. The story does not begin auspiciously with Christmas round the corner and our leading lady just having been dumped by her secret boyfriend/boss.While she fumes over her situation, her work life is not much better. She makes an impulse…

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

I started this book just after its hype a couple of years ago. I did not get into the narrative at the time, and I sorrowfully returned the book. Then too, it was a library book. I am noticing a trend of trying to reread paperback copies of books that I abandoned as hardcovers and…

Sentient by Jeff Lemire Illustration: Gabriel Walta

This is not a very long graphic novel, but it is certainly a potent one. The story is quite straightforward but coupled with the haunting art - it packs a punch. We begin our journey partway through that of the people in the book. They have already been on their way for a while and…

Old Friends Reunited by Maddie Please

I have read and reviewed another book by the author Sisters Behaving Badly I have read one other book by the author, and the common denominator between the two is the fact that the main protagonists are older than the average 30-somethings in other books. This story is of three friends, all with adult children…

Let It Snow by Beth Moran

I have read a couple of the author's works and have had a mixed bag of experience with them thus far. I really enjoyed the ones I liked, which brings me to this particular story.Bea is a local weather girl. She is famous in her own right, gracing almost everyone's home daily except her own…