It has taken me a while to figure out how I wanted to review this book. I actually read a whole other book while trying to figure out how I really felt about it. The main thing that my deliberations came down to was that it is a very good book… It just wasn’t really the book I was looking for when I started it. Based on the title and they synopsis blurb I was under the impression this was a story where the titular […]
If Celebitchy and the Daily Mail had existed in the Middle Ages
Oh man, I am SO far behind on writing up my books. I’ve read good ones, I’ve just been lazy about talking about them. I picked up Get Well Soon after reading Caitlin_D’s review. I have been reading a lot of fluffy, historical murder mysteries so far and I felt the need to try something different. I really enjoy what I call “accessible non-fiction” which is basically non-fiction books written in a more casual, conversational style. Mary Roach is probably the best known example […]
Girl Detective and Cranky Cat for Hire
Since this is books 1 & 2 of a series I may as well review them together. Posie Parker has just set out her shingle as a Private Investigator after coming home from the Ambulance Brigade in WWI. She grew up as the daughter of a country vicar and after losing both her brother and her fiance to the war has decided she has no desire to go back to the small town life. Setting up shop on Grape Street in London with […]
Like Gosford Park, But with More Corset Jokes
A Quiet Life in the Country (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 1) By TE Kinsey I think it says something about where my life is that I’m being drawn to speedy little mystery novels right now. As far as these things go, this is a great little mystery book. It starts off with Lady Emily Hardcastle and her Lady’s Maid Flo Armstrong arriving at their new home in a village outside Bristol in 1908. They have moved away from London in search of a “quiet […]