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June 16, 2023
- Just who was that old man, anyway? (Bookends) The Old Man in this story is Sherlock Holmes, of course, though he is never named as such.
- Robin Pet Of The Week
June 9, 2023
- Prescient reflections on a fictional pandemic It might have been best not to read this book while also reading one by my old friend Debora Mackenzie, a science journalist.
- Misty Pet Of The Week
June 2, 2023
- Wait a minute! This corpse wasn’t a ghost (Bookends) From its beginnings in 1933, Gardner’s Perry Mason series had progressed to number 18 by 1941, and would continue until 1969, the year before he died, totalling 80 books.
- Kevin Pet Of The Week
May 26, 2023
- The question: what is a novella, anyway? (Bookends) Why does Stephen King even bother to write anything other than novels?
- Twitch Pet Of The Week
May 19, 2023
- Butters Pet Of The Week
May 12, 2023
- Fifteen years of cross-cultural living and learning (Bookends) Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, in 1951, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family.
- These two will sure grow big and fast! Wilson (left) and Geoffrey are four-month-old male Canadian Inuit dogs.
May 5, 2023
- The ‘Mercy’ saga comes to an intriguing end (Bookends) Mercy is the fourth, and probably the last, of Baldacci’s Atlee Pine series.
- Venus Pet Of The Week
April 28, 2023
- A city girl tries to unravel a mystery in a small town (Bookends) This book starts with the discovery of a body in the forest, by a crew fighting one of the many fires that have ravaged California in recent years.
- Doug Pet Of The Week
April 21, 2023
- One last enormous book from John Irving (Bookends) At 81 years old, John Irving says this is his last long novel.
- Chiquita Pet Of The Week
April 14, 2023
- Learning how to use the Wild Power (Bookends) Charlotte (Charlie) Gale is a member of the Gale family of mystics who were introduced to us in The Enchantment Emporium, where she was a minor character.
- Jax Pet Of The Week