I picked this book up on a whim while at a local thrift store. I had never heard of the author, Colin Cotterill, and I had never heard of the series, featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun. But, pick it up I did, and, when I needed something to cheer me up after the slog that was the last book I read/reviewed, Half-Blood Blues, this book did the trick. The Merry Misogynist is a mystery set in Laos in 1978. It features Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-three-year-old […]
Ah Amnesia, it’s been too long…
First let me address the elephant in the room: I have failed at my bid to read 52 books this year seeing at I have only made it to number three and it is October. Sigh. When I decided to go for a cannonball I was pregnant with Love Spawn #2 and figured I would read while my belly grew and I was able to move less and less. Then life threw a curve ball by way of a difficult pregnancy and all bets were […]