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Bookshelf Revisited: Molly Murphy Mysteries #3, “For the Love of Mike” by Rhys Bowen
Molly Murphy is trying to get her career as an investigator off the ground in a world that thinks women should stick to needlepoint. For the Love of Mike opens with Molly spending the night in jail. She is standing on a street, monitoring a house for one of her …
Book Review: The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
I had a dream about this review. Not the actual writing of it — watching myself with a notebook or laptop would be too dull to note — but instead the thematic turmoil involved. I stood against the front door at a house party while three men in their early 20…
lip lit: half the world in winter
Death comes to us all; only the fortunate are allowed to grieve. Half the World in Winter is Maggie Joel’s second novel, which centres around the domestic life of a middle-class family in Victorian London. The patriarch of the family is Lucas Jarmyn, the only son and heir …