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…

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The Cuckoos of Batch Magna by Peter Maughan

I have been known to try some books which are out of my comfort league, at least to cursory inspection. It is rarer that I like them because I am pretty set in my ways (even if that makes me sound older than my actual years). This was one of those odd cases. We are…

Mathematical Mysteries 1 &2 by Jonathan Pinnock

It has been a while since I had this book on my virtual shelves and although I found the writing entertaining, something always seemed to come in the way and I did not get around to reading it last year. This year though, I found out that the second book was releasing and thought of…

Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer

I have reviewed a lot of Georgette Heyer's books: Fredrica The Foundling Black Sheep No Wind of Blame Envious Casca Duplicate Death Death in the Stocks Snowdrift and Other Stories The Talisman Ring Behold, Here’s Poison They Found Him Dead A Blunt Instrument The Grand Sophy Friday’s Child Cotillion Regency Buck The Reluctant Widow If…

The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull

I read and reviewed another of this author's works here. I have been enjoying these British Classics being published by Poisoned Press publications. They are my cup of tea in terms of the writing and content. I do not know if I am partial to the writing because they are a throwback to the books…

The Winter Riddle by Sam Hooker

I need to begin with something I am sure multiple blurbs will mention at some point. If you are a fan of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and/or Neil Gaiman there is something  in this book that will resonate with you. There is a randomness to the story which eventually gets to a point which will…

Flaxborough Chronicles #11 #12

When I started looking at other people's posts, I often wondered how difficult it would be for someone to not post a review for a book as soon as they read it. I assumed that the knee-jerk reaction of actually having a blog would mean that crowing about the latest completed book would result in…

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently #2) by Douglas Adams

I reviewed or attempted to review the previous book of the series here : Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency . I encourage you to read the first review before proceeding, in order to get an idea of what you might be heading in to this review. Now that you are back from that review I…