Alright. So I’m back on a fiction kick. It’s been years, really. I started with a Christine Dodd book called the Scent of Darkness. A cursed werewolf-type man (who is also an international winery CEO) is under attack by similarly-cursed assassins. So, he must escape the killers, and hunt them down, while he protects and... Continue Reading →
A Duty to the Dead : A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd
Bess Crawford is a young nurse serving on the hospital ship "Britannic" when it hits a mine and sinks in the ocean near Turkey during the First World War. While she survives, with only a broken arm, it's enough to send her back home to England to recuperate and to pass on a message given... Continue Reading →
Real Swell Gents
One day while walking by the shelves at the Brodie Resource Library, I noticed a series of books that instantly brought me back to my early reading days............my very early reading days. While I grew up reading Encyclopedia Brown and choose Your Own Adventure books and watching Scooby Doo (the good Scooby Doo shows, not... Continue Reading →
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
This is one of those inspirational gems that you carry with you long after the story has ended. Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out on a journey in search of a treasure he has been told awaits him at the Pyramids of Egypt. A treasure of worldly goods, Santiago knows not what it contains,... Continue Reading →
A Share in Death : A Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Mystery by Deborah Crombie
I grew up with British mysteries. Names like Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie were as familiar as Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden in my reading stand. So I'm always open to a new British mystery series. Based on a recommendation by a library patron, I picked up the first book in the... Continue Reading →
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