August 2019 Books Vs Moods

My last monthly compilation was :July 2019 Books Vs Moods Previous year post: Aug 2018 Books Vs Moods This is probably one of my shortest lists in the recent months, but they are all good! The following (as usual) are true: These are a list comprising of books that I read/reviewed in the past month…

Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race #4) by Agatha Christie

This is yet another book that goes into the #BritishCrimeClassicsChallenge I wanted a smaller book to squirrel away into my bag as all the others I had requested from the library were either bigger or heavier. In a hurry to leave I picked the first one in the Christie shelf that I could not conjure up…

A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley

I do not know what drove me to pick this book up since it was a couple of months ago but whatever it was, served me well. To begin with, the acknowledgments were some of the most heartfelt and well-written ones that I have ever had the fortune to read. A lot of acknowledgments I…

Snug Harbor Stories: A Wallace the Brave Collection! by Will Henry

I reviewed another book by the author:Wallace the Brave by Will Henry and looked forward to getting into this one. The first few panels were nothing special and I have to admit that I was a little disappointed but then the story picks up pace. There is not much of a linear progression in terms of…

Avidly Reads Board Games by Eric Thurm

This book tackles games in such a fashion that it has made my recent obsession with board games feel more than justified (I have had other little successes recently but this put a whole academic spin on it). My love for board games is a personal thing, as personal as the number of players required…

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

This book was discussed widely before its initial release. It tackles such serious issues in a manner befitting a YA book, that it cinches its place as something unique and worth reading. This is the story of Jay and his sudden discovery that his cousin back in the Philippines died under mysterious circumstances. He had…

Mr. Finchley – by Victor Canning

I have been reading this series for a while now, but I wanted to read all three before talking about it, just because it made more sense. I am always up for trying a reprint of older books, preferably mysteries but I sometimes succumb to interesting-sounding books of other genres. This was one of those…

Utterly Uncle Fred (Uncle Fred 0.5 & 2-4) by P.G. Wodehouse

I felt a sudden urge before I left for my vacation to unwind with a book from my own shelf. I purchased this omnibus sometime in 2012 at the Strand in New York. I only went there infrequently in the time that I lived in the area and every visit was an adventure in itself…